04-26-2006, 04:04 PM
Auctionbytes book review of Fake: Forgery, Lies, & eBay
full book review: http://auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y06/m04/i26/s03
Quote:Ken Walton created some groundbreaking tools for eBay sellers in 2001. Walton also perpetrated the most notorious art fraud in eBay's history involving forgery and shill-bidding with cohorts Ken Fetterman and Scott Beach.
However, Walton kept secret the full extent of his deception regarding his eBay software company, and his not quite "tell-all" book released this month merely glosses over subterfuge relating to HammerTap.
In his new book, "Fake: Forgery, Lies, & eBay. How one man's con game created an international scandal & triggered a nationwide FBI manhunt," Walton details the slippery slope that led him from shill bidding as an "advertising strategy" on eBay to passing off forged paintings as real ones as part of a shill-bidding ring...
full book review: http://auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y06/m04/i26/s03