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bahama97's review against another edition
5.0
I found this book really intriguing. I have never listened to her speak or had any knowledge of her prior to reading this book, so everything was fresh. I was really fascinated with the scams she uncovered. I also watched her documentary on Rita as well.
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funny
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inspiring
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5.0
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5.0
I don’t have enough time to express how much I loved this book and all of the amazing things about it. It’s a must-read for just about everyone. Kelly Richmond Pope is a professor and has been fascinated with fraud since a young age, and now she dedicates her life to understanding why people commit fraud and how people fall for it. The book has a lot of really interesting stories, but the way the author writes really keeps you engaged, and I binged this book within a few days.
Kelly does a phenomenal job explaining the different types of people who commit fraud and the thought process they have when doing it. Then, she also explains how people fall for it or how things go unnoticed. She also has an excellent chapter on whistle-blowers and how difficult it is to be one because there’s so much retaliation and things that happen to a person’s reputation for just trying to do the right thing.
If I had to have one critique, it’s just a personal one and probably wouldn’t fit well in this book. I think the one thing missing is a larger moral/ethical conversation about unethical, terrible companies that are also victims of fraud. While fraud is wrong and there is a lot of collateral damage, when millionaires and billionaires are victims of fraud, the book doesn’t really discuss how many of those “victims” also did terrible things to acquire their money.
My critique is tiny, so make sure you get this book. Everyone needs to read it to learn how to protect themselves from fraud and also change the conversation around whistle-blowers and how we view them and treat them.
Kelly does a phenomenal job explaining the different types of people who commit fraud and the thought process they have when doing it. Then, she also explains how people fall for it or how things go unnoticed. She also has an excellent chapter on whistle-blowers and how difficult it is to be one because there’s so much retaliation and things that happen to a person’s reputation for just trying to do the right thing.
If I had to have one critique, it’s just a personal one and probably wouldn’t fit well in this book. I think the one thing missing is a larger moral/ethical conversation about unethical, terrible companies that are also victims of fraud. While fraud is wrong and there is a lot of collateral damage, when millionaires and billionaires are victims of fraud, the book doesn’t really discuss how many of those “victims” also did terrible things to acquire their money.
My critique is tiny, so make sure you get this book. Everyone needs to read it to learn how to protect themselves from fraud and also change the conversation around whistle-blowers and how we view them and treat them.