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Money Men: A Hot Startup, A Billion Dollar Fraud, A Fight for the Truth by [Dan McCrum]

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'The financial investigation of the decade... Money Men instantly enters the canon of great financial crime books' Bradley Hope, author of The Billion Dollar Whale

'A rip-roaring ride into the underworld of the global economy' Tom Burgis, author of Kleptopia

'Required reading' The Economist

'A cross between the Enron scandal and Rosemary's Baby' John Lanchester, London Review of Books

'Reads like a crime drama' New Statesman

'The culmination of years of careful investigative work... Gripping' Evening Standard

'A thrilling, head-spinning book' Irish Times

'A rollercoaster read that reveals everything that's wrong with our financial system' Catherine Belton

Now adapted as the Netflix documentary Skandal!, this is the stranger-than-fiction story of Wirecard, once a $30 billion tech darling, now a smouldering wreck, by the journalist who brought it crashing down - perfect for those who loved Bad Blood and Empire of Pain.

When journalist Dan McCrum followed a tip to investigate the hot new tech company challenging Silicon Valley, everything about Wirecard looked a little too good to be true: offices were sprouting up around the world, it was reporting runaway growth and the CEO even wore a black turtleneck in tribute to Steve Jobs. In the space of a few short years, the company had come from nowhere to overtake industry giants like Commerzbank and Deutsche Bank on the stock market.

As McCrum dug deeper, he encountered a story stranger and more dangerous than he ever imagined: a world of short sellers and whistleblowers, pornographers and private militias, hackers and spies. Before long he realised that he wasn't the only one in pursuit. Shadowy figures were following him through the streets of London, high-flying lawyers were sending ominous letters to his boss, and he was named as the prime suspect in a criminal inquiry. The race was on to prove his suspicions and clear his name.

Money Men is the astonishing true story of Wirecard's multi-billion-dollar fraud, Europe's biggest new tech darling revealed as a house of cards.

Uncovering fake bank accounts, fake offices and possibly even a fake death, McCrum offers a searing exposé that will finally lay bare the truth.

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‘Faking profits, you end up with a problem of fake cash. At the end of the year the auditor will expect to see a healthy bank balance, it’s the first thing they check. So what you have to do is spend that fake cash on fake assets,’
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InfoGenie’s shares had little value and barely traded, as Bauer owned most of them, but they were listed. He decided to take Wirecard public by obliterating InfoGenie in a process known as a reverse takeover.
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09QT3Y69V
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Transworld Digital (June 16, 2022)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 16, 2022
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2956 KB
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Dan McCrum is a multi-award winning journalist and author. He is a member of the Financial Times investigations team, and has spent 15 years writing about business from New York and London. His reporting has been recognised with more than a dozen prizes, including journalist of the year at the 2020 British Press Awards.

Dan got a taste for newsprint as a paper boy in North Devon. Before he became a writer he tried his hand at painting and decorating, selling kids books door to door, and investment banking. He lives in St Albans with his family.

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Pomva02

Good Book - Odd that edition purchased is only supposed to be sold in India

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 29, 2023

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Not sure why the paperback version I purchased on Amazon indicates that the book is only for sale on the Indian subcontinent. My Amazon purchase appeared to come from the U.S.- seems sketchy.

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Anthony Restuccia

Incredible story of fraud

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 8, 2023

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Really enjoyed reading how silly we all are when we went something to be IT

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DC Palter

Great Journalism But Disappointing Read

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 7, 2022

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I love stories of accounting scandals, especially startups. I like to understand the people who perpetuate large-scale frauds and the details of how they pull it off. So when Money Men came out, the story of the Wirecard scandal by Dan McCrum, the Financial Times journalist who broke the story, I had to rush out and buy a copy.

I'm glad I read it. If you're into financial scandal, it's a must-read. But I was kind of disappointed by the storytelling. What should have been an exciting read of international conspiracy, corruption, spying, and even criminal charges lodged against the writer, was kind of a slog.

I can't help comparing Money Men to Bad Blood, the story of the Theranos scandal. That book told the intimate stories of founder Elizabeth Holmes and a few senior staff members who risked their careers and their health to blow the whistle. We got to know each of them, their personalities, their lives and their struggles. We saw what was actually going on inside Theranos as Holmes hid the reality of an impossible product from employees, from regulators, from customers, and from investors. It was a page-turner.

Money Men covered 7 years of investigation with every detail. Every meeting MeCrum had, every trip he took, every glass of beer he drank in a London bar. The book lists a cast of characters at the beginning because dozens of people play a part, but there is no focus other than McCrum's determination to find a way to get the truth out about Wirecard.

We never see the inside of Wirecard, never really understand how their scam worked. There's a cat and mouse game between the company and McCrum that ought to be exciting, but by describing the hundreds of other cats and mice all over the world playing small (or unknown) roles, it feels more like reading a company's annual report.

In the end, I'm left learning much more about how the Financial Times operates and the layout of their desks than I did about Wirecard and their fraudulent operations.

An important read and valuable investigative journalism, but could have been a more interesting book.

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S. McDonald

Excellent coverage

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 30, 2022

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Book not only explains the details of the fraud and money laundering, but also helps the reader to understand the fintech industry.

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SMNYL

Bizarre facts, intriguing story, inconclusive analysis

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 22, 2023

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A wonderful story but written in a much more confusing manner than it should have been. The big themes are clear enough but anyone with an eye for detail will be enormously frustrated. Fraud, certainly, but naked fraud or fraud in furtherance of large scale money laundering schemes? And if the latter, for whose benefit? The facts are still leaking out; perhaps Mr. McCrum will revisit the story, in more organized fashion, when more facts come out through the pending trials.

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A Curious Tongue

An interesting story woven into an often confusing narrative

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 26, 2023

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All in all an interesting read; however, the transitions between story threads are often sudden, jarring, and seemingly without context. The end itself is rather anticlimactic.

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DerRalf

Almost unbelievable if it weren’t true.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 25, 2022

This is a must read. Hard to believe this is not a #1 NYT best seller. The story of Wirecard is shocking and Dan McCrum’s work in uncovering it absolutely fascinating. Journalism at it’s best.

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Two Wheels

Poorly written

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 19, 2023

Interesting story written in a rambling style. With a competent author and editor this could have been a terrific book. Poorly focused with too little information about the fraud and too much about the author’s investigation. Too much extraneous detail and too many peripheral characters. A good story hidden in a mediocre book. When I finished it was still not clear what these crooks did and how they did it.

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Caio

Fraudes dão bons livros

Reviewed in Brazil 🇧🇷 on June 25, 2022

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Fraudes dão bons livros, fraudes excepcionais dão livros excepcionais. O que aconteceu no caso Wirecard destoa de casos como Enron e Theranos, que também deram bons livros, por dois motivos: (1) os personagens são mafiosos no sentido clássico, e (2) as autoridades são surpreendentemente coniventes. O tipo de coisa que o livro descreve parece ser do submundo do crime e não de uma grande empresa alemã DAX 30. Recomendo muito a leitura.

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Dover121

Too Good to be True

Reviewed in Australia 🇦🇺 on April 27, 2023

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A magnificent read. I read the book in a couple of days.
Dan McCrum the FT journalist followed a tip that ended with him on an incredible journey.

Wirecard's multi million dollar fraud had fake bank accounts and fake offices everywhere.
A fascinating book should be read by everyone.
Too good to be true it certainly was.

Neshan Dias, CEO Bhoozt

When truth is stranger than fiction - great read

Reviewed in Australia 🇦🇺 on March 26, 2023

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As an ex-journalist I love reading non-fiction business books. This is a very well written account of an amazing true story that has to be read to be believed.
Theranos, Enron, Maddock come to mind, except here a couple of journalist with hardly any resources go up against a giant corporation that is not only protected by German authorities and law enforcement but also the underbelly of the world.
Hats off to the years of persistence by the author who risked his job and his life in bringing this story to us. Incredible read. Well done Financial Times. Glad to see proper journalism still alive.

Sam

good read

Reviewed in Australia 🇦🇺 on March 12, 2023

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Entertaining read about the role and lack of responsibility auditors actually have. I needed Enright more words peace out world

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