James Altucher Quotes

I had a weird situation were someone used my name to extort money from a woman. He took her for 60 or 80 thousand dollars. He is in prison now. It was on Sally.

Every swindle is driven by a desire for easy money; it's the one thing the swindler and the swindled have in common.

Many scammers are only using personal checks for payment because they can take the money and run.

I've been racketeered on.

I had one guy pretend to be me, go to a hotel room, and tell the people at the front desk that it was me, and then he went in and stole all of our luggage. There's always that eager beaver that wants to be a part of the team and comes off as a sticky fly.

It doesn't matter how rich you are - you know when you're being ripped off.

A lot of people see scammers as, like, just one guy in a basement with his computer, but actually, I think it's probably almost kind of a call centre.

With commerce comes fraud.

Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.

Some of the best scams that you get are the ones that pretend to come from friends of yours, because you can just say anything you want, because a scammer has no idea about your relationship with that person.

Fraud really thrives in moments of great social change and transition. We're in the midst of a technological revolution. That gives con artists huge opportunities. People lose their frame of reference for what can and can't be real.

By the time we enter this work world and we're breadwinners, we enter a world that's just cluttered with spam, fake, digital friends, partisan media, ingenious identity thieves, world-class Ponzi schemers - a deception epidemic.

I had a guy on Facebook for, like, years just asking if he could PayPal me money, and of course I have to say no when, really, I'm just like, 'Why wouldn't I? He doesn't want anything for it.'

I woke up one morning to an email from my friend Alex that said she'd had her bag stolen. Ordinarily, I'm quite quick on the uptake, but - maybe because of the way it was worded - I immediately replied, 'What??????' As soon as I hit send, I realised I was being scammed. But then they replied, and I thought, 'Well, why not?'

My identity was stolen by two separate peoplewho I hope are playing me better

I believe we have been fleeced.

Fraud and deceit abound in these days more than in former times.

… one of the world's most disgraceful scams

Immense sums were filched from the poor and ignorant.

The trust saga is full of “scandals, deception, dirty tricks and outright villainy,” says the presiding judge.

We're going after the possibilities of tax fraud, insurance fraud, securities fraud. We're going to look at this stuff very closely. We have the jurisdiction, we have the resources, and we have the will.

Social engineering has become about 75% of an average hacker's toolkit, and for the most successful hackers, it reaches 90% or more.

One of the things about the con artist lifestyle is that all the romance is sort of sloppy and fast and loose.

You're not allowed to lure people into spending their money or betting their money based on false representations.

I saw firsthand the toll that fraud can take on the victims and their families.