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Opathu
Number of posts : 1047 Registration date : 2008-06-17
| Subject: The Fraudbusters™ Fri Aug 28, 2009 11:49 am | |
| My new story in Wired magazine:
Summer 2003 – The two men stepped off the long flight from Dublin. The Miami heat washed over them in a second, but they didn't flinch. In their line of work they were well-used to entering harsh climes; war-torn Liberia, the jungles of Papua New Guinea or a freezing Toronto winter – they went wherever the money trail led them.
The taller and more broad-shouldered of the two had once guarded US Presidents and worked out on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border when the US supported the mujahideen. His companion, shorter and with carefully-buttoned suit and tie, was a forensically-minded lawyer responsible for crossing swords with some of the most tenacious con-men the world had ever seen, sociopaths who would stop at nothing in their avarice. When you heard of names like Bernie Madoff or Sir Allen Stanford, chances are he was on their trail. He had sat across from these criminals as they told him how they lay awake at night, dreaming of ways to kill him.
Read October's Wired (UK) magazine for my story of the Global Fraud Busters.
(and yes, you have to actually *buy* it to read it)
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Quintilius
Number of posts : 735 Age : 39 Registration date : 2008-07-08
| Subject: Re: The Fraudbusters™ Fri Aug 28, 2009 2:23 pm | |
| I tell my friends that I know this famous journalist that keep writing stuff for cool magazines and we're real best pals and he calls me cool things like pillowbiter (not really sure what it means!) and we've even RP'd together and he's an orc and I'm an undead and.. yeah.. they get really impressed! Heh, no but really.. I've actually told em.. You write cool stories.. Wired is cool.. U r cool.. Whadup, dawg? | |
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Siheld
Number of posts : 1446 Age : 31 Location : Holland Registration date : 2008-08-17
| Subject: Re: The Fraudbusters™ Fri Aug 28, 2009 2:31 pm | |
| Haha pillowbiter, awesome! | |
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Opathu
Number of posts : 1047 Registration date : 2008-06-17
| Subject: Re: The Fraudbusters™ Fri Aug 28, 2009 2:51 pm | |
| I do believe the phrase was "you dirty little pillowbiter". Sadly I just learned that HBO do not want to proceed with my American Taliban film proposal. So that leaves another ('The Father') in development as a book + film; plus ('The Endz') as my other book to complete, too. Then maybe I'll write 'Confessions of an Ageing Roleplayer' to make my millions ... all the ERP scandals, the gold selling exposés, how I lost my wife and kids to raiding, etc. | |
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Siheld
Number of posts : 1446 Age : 31 Location : Holland Registration date : 2008-08-17
| Subject: Re: The Fraudbusters™ Fri Aug 28, 2009 2:59 pm | |
| Confessions of a teenage drama queen Confessions of a shop-a-holic Confessions of a gossip girl.
STOP CONFESSING TITLE BOOKS/FILMS! | |
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Manovan Marrowsteel
Number of posts : 319 Age : 36 Location : Sweden Registration date : 2008-11-10
| Subject: Re: The Fraudbusters™ Fri Aug 28, 2009 3:56 pm | |
| Opathu once said he had f****d my mother.
I thought he had a bad taste in women. | |
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Leaf
Number of posts : 857 Age : 40 Location : Sweden Registration date : 2008-06-26
| Subject: Re: The Fraudbusters™ Sat Aug 29, 2009 2:13 pm | |
| - Manovan Marrowsteel wrote:
- Opathu once said he had f****d my mother.
I thought he had a bad taste in women. Wrong thread? | |
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Manovan Marrowsteel
Number of posts : 319 Age : 36 Location : Sweden Registration date : 2008-11-10
| Subject: Re: The Fraudbusters™ Sat Aug 29, 2009 2:46 pm | |
| - Leaf wrote:
- Manovan Marrowsteel wrote:
- Opathu once said he had f****d my mother.
I thought he had a bad taste in women. Wrong thread? Or is it the right thread? One of life's big questions. | |
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Opathu
Number of posts : 1047 Registration date : 2008-06-17
| Subject: Re: The Fraudbusters™ Thu Sep 03, 2009 2:04 pm | |
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Opathu
Number of posts : 1047 Registration date : 2008-06-17
| Subject: Re: The Fraudbusters™ Mon Sep 07, 2009 2:09 pm | |
| THE FRAUDBUSTERS™ Original intro:March 2003 – The ambulance raced through the traffic. It flew past the San Gabriel Mountains which hemmed in the Los Angeles suburb and framed the Mojave Desert to the north. The driver weaved expertly off the freeway into the faceless cul-de-sacs, as the radio crackled into life. 'Status?' He waited. He could hear the woman sobbing, choking off the words as she vomited, then groaned. He turned and risked a look, saw the near-comatose lady – Chinese he guessed – his colleague obscuring his view as he checked her blood pressure. '… female … middle aged … nearest kin identifies her as Susan. Susan Kheng-Lok,' repeated the paramedic. '… Suspected overdose.' He was trying to calm her as best he could. The driver punched the details into his AMPD (Advanced Medical Priority Dispatch System) then turned towards the Foothills Presbyterian Hospital. He glanced at the clouds overhead: the early spring weather had yet to break. Time was tight. He wasn't sure if they were going to make it. Five minutes earlier they had been greeted by a rather ordinary house; Susan Lok and her Cambodian father kept a tidy home, comfortable but not overly-ostentatious. The family had lived the American dream and, it seemed, had made it. They were quiet, perfect neighbours. Not the sort to have a massive money laundering operation running from the neat gardens of Glendora, California. * The published article is here: http://bit.ly/jdJKV | |
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