Fakes and Forgeries
- ISBN-10
- 1410914240
- ISBN-13
- 9781410914248
- Category
- Forgery
- Pages
- 56
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Publisher
- Heinemann-Raintree Library
- Author
- John Townsend
Description
Describes the different ways con artists use fraud to get money, including stealing identities, copying paintings, and counterfeiting money, and how they are caught.
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