I think your book came to me by mistake. It's called How to Scam People, right? If so, it's here. If you just send me a few bucks to cover postage, I'm happy to forward it along to where it's supposed to be!
One time I ordered a shirt and it didn't show up for months. No response from the seller. I had accepted my loss and learned my lesson. But then a couple months later, bam, shirt.
I subletted a place once. Person who wanted it worked for one of those Herbal medicine scams as a cold call agent. Guess who never paid on time and eventually I had to ask him to leave.
It's taking many many years for me to come to the point where I realized it was my fault. He told me what he was about and I didn't listen.
A person, typically poor asks you for help. They present a lottery ticket and they don’t know what to do or say they can’t collect. Normally another person arrives to “help”. You three go check the ticket and it’s a winner, but you don’t notice that it’s not the same week, the ticket is not valid.
They want to sell the ticket to you for any kind of money or even jewelry. So, it takes two crooks for the scam to work, they and you.