Synopsis
Craig Jacob, confidence man, paid off gambling debts by cheating his card-playing friends, passed forged checks, used counterfeit credit cards, and despite a seven-and-a-half-year prison term, remains unrepentant. This is his memoir.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 1995-09-01 |
| Size | | Height: | 9.5 in | | Width: | 6.5 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 14.4 oz |
Publisher's Note
Since he was a teenager, Craig Jacob has had a knack for - well, to put it bluntly, ripping off his fellow citizens. He's a con man, and one of the best. As Jacob says in Twisted Genius: "I added it up once. Ten million dollars, give or take a few bucks, it came to. And the schemes I concocted to get it were unending. For nearly 20 years I played the biggest institutions for chumps - airlines, banks, casinos, newspapers, credit card companies, Western Union, the phone company, department stores and manufacturers. And never was any element of coercion involved. I mean, no guns, no threats. With con, with guile, sometimes with sheer nerve, I took money from these bastions of financial stability. Some of them actually had to change their procedures after I got through with them". Even law enforcement authorities have acknowledged how ingenious Jacob is. "Mr. Jacob is every credit-card holder's nightmare", said one official. "This man has single-handedly developed a sophisticated scheme that puts banks with all their modern state-of-the-art computer equipment at his mercy....He is the type of person who, equipped with little or almost no information, can make optimum use of it and obtain mobility in spheres that would present barriers to most of us who are not willing to persist or who lack tenacity. He is not intimidated easily, nor is he afraid to test limits". Craig has been, by his own description, a criminal, but he is undeniably also some sort of genius. A twisted genius.
The first-person account of an electronic age con man.
Industry Reviews
"There's an author tour, not by Jacob but by coauthor Berger...; Jacob is in the joint right now. Appended are some exhibits to bolster the notion that the text isn't just another scam."
Doty
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