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Jean-Michel Billioud

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256 pages
23 x 29,7 cm ~ 9“ x 11“ /4
284 illustrations

 

From Trojan horse to Madoff

The scam fascinates for two main reasons: the daring ingenuity of its author and the confusing naivety of its victim. From Antiquity to the era of cybercrime, fraud, deceit, imposture, intox, trickery seem to hover over almost all human activities. This beautiful book illustrated with photos, maps and archive images takes apart the mechanisms of the cleverest scams and explores an unscrupulous continent that does not appear on any planisphere.

80 illustrated scams, to better understand them, avoid them or become an enlightened scammer.

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Jean-Michel Billioud

Jean-Michel Billioud is a French writer and historian. He studied at the École de Provence in Marseille from 1971 to 1982. After completing degrees in journalism at the Institut Français de Presse and in history at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, he put his pen to work in the fields of press, broadcasting (radio and TV), and publishing. Since 2021, he has served as Head of Communications at the French Ministry of National Education and Youth. He has published around twenty works of fiction, picture books, and biographical novels, as well as several essays and over a hundred nonfiction titles for readers young and old — always with two main goals: to explain as clearly as possible and to rescue from oblivion what time seeks to erase. His favorite themes include sports, history, culture, and ecology.

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