Alexandrea Delauren's "Stalkers Harassers & Saboteurs" or "What To Do When Your Con Victims Figure You Out"

Stalkers Harassers & Saboteurs offers fascinating insights into the criminal mind, May 25, 2006

Reviewer: catchmeifyoucan - See all my reviews

of the author.

If you can look beyond the book's clunky confusing prose and egregious spelling, grammatical, and factual errors you'll find a good primer on how to protect yourself from the annoying accusations and potentially damaging formal complaints lodged by your employees who haven't been paid and your irate customers who haven't received their state mandated refunds after you skipped town with their cash.

As any seasoned con-artist will tell you, the worst thing that can happen is when your victims figure out what you've been up to. The effects of having your history of fraud discovered can be devastating. This book shows you what you can do when your aliases and felonies are revealed by your victims. It indirectly includes many practical tips on how to turn things around by pretending to be the victim yourself. You may not be able to convince everyone that your crime victims are actually stalkers but you might find a few gullibly sympathetic people that you can exploit to your advantage. Remember, it only takes a few and you'll be all set to stay in "business". As the author points out, it's not your fault, even if the media, law enforcement, and your numerous con victims unreasonably insist otherwise.

Some minor quibbles:
pages 294 to 446 are reproduced word for word from this website: http://esia.net/State_Stalking_Laws.htm, so 152 pages of the book's total (449 pages) are padding, but that still leaves the reader with 297 pages that are at least somewhat original in that they are reworded. Pages 183 to 260 are, for the most part, a repeat of pages 143 to 182 with title headings and content printed 3 times, much like "The Nouveau Native's No Fee New York" and "The Nouveau Native's No Fee New York with Pets", but that's still a net of 182 pages out of 449 of marginally new material you won't see anywhere else unless you have an internet connection.

That said, even with the many copied pages, terms, and ideas from http://esia.net mixed in with the author's specific agenda, Stalkers Harassers & Saboteurs presents a uniquely twisted and underrepresented view into the world of the con-artist as pseudo-victim. I highly recommend it*.

*If you're a criminal on the run.

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