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Increasingly, identity theft is a fact of life. We might once have hoped to protect ourselves from hackers with airtight passwords and aggressive spam folders, and those are good ideas as far as they go. But the truth is, there are people out there -- a lot of them -- who treat stealing your identity as a full-time job. One such company is a nameless firm located in Russia, which has a trove of over a billion internet passwords. Another set up a website...
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English
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A definitive account of the Boston criminal underworld's role in the infamous $500 million Gardner Museum art theft traces the contributions of master thief Louis Royce and gangster Ralph Rossetti while examining the FBI's controversial announcement that they had identified the responsible parties.
"In a secret meeting in 1981, a master thief named Louis Royce gave career gangster Ralph Rossetti the tip of a lifetime. As a kid, Royce had visited...
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Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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English
Description
In a powerful memoir, identity theft expert Betz-Hamilton tells the shocking and unsettling story of her family, betrayal, and deceit. Convinced that the thief had to be someone they knew, Axton and her parents completely cut off the outside world, isolating themselves from friends and family.
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xvii, 241 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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English
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"Art theft is one of the most profitable criminal enterprises in the world, exceeding $6 billion dollars in losses to galleries and art collectors annually. In Stealing Rembrandts, authors Anthony M. Amore and Tom Mashberg reveal the actors behind the major art heists of the Dutch Master in the last century. Through thefts around the world--from Stockholm to Boston, Worcester to Ohio--the authors track daring entries into and escapes from the world's...
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Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Viz Kids ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : chiefly ill. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a precious fossil is stolen from the Nacrene Museum, Black volunteers to track down the thieves, while Team Plasma gets a step closer to finding a legendary Pokémon.
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Publisher
Smithsonian Books/HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
260 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
One museum, two thieves, and the Boston underworld--the story behind the lost Gardner masterpieces worth $500 million and the art detective who swore to get them back.
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English
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"On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist boarded a train for a suburban outpost of the British Museum of Natural History. Home to one of the largest ornithological collections in the world, the Tring museum was full of rare bird specimens whose gorgeous feathers were worth staggering amounts of money to the men who shared Edwin's obsession: the Victorian...
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Series
It actually happened volume 2
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
166 p. : ill., port. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Provides true stories of thieves and their greatest heists, including Willie Sutton, D.B. Cooper, and those who committed London's great train robbery.
14) Identity theft
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Publisher
Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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Many people store and share personal information online. This information is part of a person's identity. Identity thieves can find and steal this information. Identity Theft explores how people can protect themselves from identity theft.
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Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
415 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
Description
Special Agent Dagny Gray is smart, athletic, and fearless. She's also fragile, depressed, and anorexic. If she doesn't get healthy soon, the FBI will drop he-and she'll never have a chance to end the crime spree of the so-called "bubble gum thief." It all started with the theft of a pack of gum, and the ominous note he left behind: THIS IS MY FIRST CRIME. MY NEXT WILL BE BIGGER. Every two weeks, he delivers on this pledge, committing a bigger crime,...
16) Fresh fish
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Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
28 p. : col. ill. ; 24 x 30 cm.
Language
English
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Publisher
Weldon Owen International
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
221 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Identity theft. Email hacks. Infrastructure attacks. Credit card fraud. Even murder for hire. All of these crimes can be committed with just a few clicks of a mouse. Cyber criminals can attack at any time, targeting you through a laptop, a smartphone, a television -- even your doorbell or thermostat. The good news? You don't have to be a victim. In this comprehensive, practical, and fact-filled book, global security expert Nick Selby and futurist...
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