The Counterfeit Scale
Erhan Civelek is a former strategy consultant at Bain, BCG, and Kearney. Grandson of a fifth-generation Grand Bazaar merchant, he writes about trust architecture, fraud, and institutional design. Author of the forthcoming book The Counterfeit Scale.
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A Field Guide to Tourist Cons (From a Bazaar Grandson)
Let me begin with a confession of geography.
Some of the cons in this field guide operate within a few minutes’ walk of the streets where my family sold spices for five generations. The shoe-shine man with the falling brush works the route...
This Week’s Fraud, Weighed: The Captain in the Gap
For seventeen years, passengers boarding certain Air Canada flights were welcomed aboard, at least indirectly, by Captain Geoffrey Wall.
The facts, as Canadian police and news reports laid them out in June: Wall, 59, was promoted to captai...
Siftah: The First Sale of the Morning
Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar does not wake up all at once. It wakes stall by stall — shutters rolling up one after another down the covered streets, the smell of tea arriving before the tea boy does, merchants calling good mornings to men they w...
This Week’s Fraud, Weighed: The Lender With No Loans
This is the first edition of something I intend to do regularly in this newsletter. Every week, somewhere, a fraud surfaces — an indictment, a collapse, a plea. The coverage always tells you what happened. It almost never tells you the only...
The Last Question Your Mother Can’t Answer
The call arrives at the worst possible hour, because it is designed to.
It goes like this — and I describe the pattern, not any single case, because by now the pattern has repeated across thousands of households: a phone rings at 2 a.m. A...
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Erhan Civelek is a former strategy consultant at Bain, BCG, and Kearney. Grandson of a fifth-generation Grand Bazaar merchant, he writes about trust architecture, fraud, and institutional design. Author of the forthcoming book The Counterfeit Scale.
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