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The 13-Year-Old Con Man Who Built a Citywide Fraud Empire
The 13-Year-Old Con Man Who Built a Citywide Fraud Empire
The image of a child at a keyboard hiding tens of thousands of pounds in bank accounts is unnerving: by age thirteen James Blake Cameron had registered companies, rented London offices, hired staff and taken payments for goods that never arrived. How did a boy inherit £16,000, spend it on books about criminology and business, and turn grief into a blueprint for serial fraud before anyone stopped him?
In this episode, we follow the documented timeline of Cameron's schemes from July 2004 through 2005, detailing the businesses he ran, the…
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