Amazon Category:  Action/Thriller Publisher: Just My Best ISBN-10:  1932586377 Pages: 200 Copyright: September 2005. ISBN-13: 9781932586374 The novel creates another scene, to make a scammer a victim and a victim a scammer The novel is entitled "The Scam Traders" chosen for the dealing that it portrays. The novel tells the story of Fanny Analbaly, who struggles to complete his university education, optimistic that he will secure a white-collar job in the city. The return of Fanny's stepfather from the U.S.A. generates a lot of controversy. He is gunned down a few days after he arrives home, and $40,000.00 is stolen from him. Fanny's uncle sends him to the city of Lagos Nigeria, to visit his son James, and find work. But James has left Nigeria for Amsterdam. Dom, James's friend, gives Fanny a job in his business, the Beach Venture Ltd. Fanny is taught the scam business, makes his first hit and is initiated into the "Blue Closed Club" family. The months and years that follow, Fanny makes big hits and eventually starts his own business. This novel explains how the advance fee fraud is executed based on both the testimonies of victims and perpetuators. It exposes the cunning of the perpetuators and the greed of the victims. The advance fee fraud is believed to have originated in West Africa during the 1970s, otherwise called the 419 scam after the Nigeria criminal code. It has spread throughout other parts of the world in spite of warnings by various security agents    Excerpt Decius: Never fear that: that unicorns may be betray'd with trees, And bears with glasses, elephants with holes, lions with toils and men with flatterers. But when I tell him he hates flatterers, He says he does, being then most flattered. Let me work; for I can give his humour the true bent, And I will bring him to the Capitol. Casius: "Nay we will all of us be there to fetch him." William Shakespeare-Julius Caesar

You know what fascinated me about this book?
You know what fascinated me about this book? It was the unbelievable greed of these individuals. Not just the greed of the scammers, but of the "victims" as well. I've always wondered what motivated the victim to actually fall for one of these scams. I've seen plenty of scams, or as we call it--Flimflams, on the job (as a police officer) and it was always beyond my comprehension of how these victims were taken in the first place. Now I know. All in all, the book gives some dark insight into how these people operate and how they actually can get away with the crimes. Fraud is considered a victimless crime because usually credit card companies or banks end up taking the hit, but in reality, everyone pays. Maybe this book will make the reader beware and we can end this so called victimless crime. — Rosanna Filippello