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Lessons from Sports Memorabilia Fraudster, Wayne Bray

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-09-13T09:47:00Z in Personal Development, with these tags: conscence, crime, evils, goals, humanity, life, logic, purpose, 3 Comments. 1,674 words.

I saw a fascinating story on the television about this guy named Wayne Bray, who partnered with Greg Marino to forge and sell millions of dollars worth of sports memorabilia, all engraved with fake signatures. He worked as an “Authenticator and Wholesaler” in San Marcos, California, selling the forgeries to hundreds of dealers.

The show is called Masterminds: Foul Ball. Most of it is an actor playing Bray, but he appears several times talking about what he did.

They said at his peak, he was passing off ten million dollars worth of counterfeits per month. By 1999, the FBI was …

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