If convention entertainment is all about creating a receptive and happy audience, Bob's presentation is invaluable. What differentiates Bob's presentation from other speakers' is the lasting WOW factor. Audiences remember and talk about his show for days, weeks, even months after his presentation. And finally, the show works equally well with an international audience.

Bob is a unique speaker in the global corporate event industry. He stimulates intellectual curiosity with intriguing interactive comedy. It's a slick, fast-paced cutting-edge presentation. In today's market where value is key, Bob is uniquely positioned.

Demonstrating his spectacular brand of classic thievery, Bob Arno reveals the sly tricks of pickpockets, credit-card fraudsters and identity thieves plying city streets worldwide. A few minutes of exclusive video footage showing actual pickpockets informs, amazes, and preludes Bob's surprising take on how it really happens with a comedy twist. This is a full hour of innovative, unique, and hilarious pickpocket entertainment, free of fluff and padding.

As a lifelong observer of human social signals, it is Bob Arno's skill at "reading people" that steers him on stage and off. His uncanny ability to decipher body language has enabled him to identify and track actual thieves out in the real world, and capture their crimes on film.

The word "unconventional" defines Bob Arno both on stage and off. He did magic as a kid, as many kids do, but he stuck with it, as most kids don't. He started performing as a teenager and, as his gigs took him to evermore exotic locations, combined performing with freelance photography.

From magician to scoundrel. It was on a photojournalism project in Southeast Asia that Bob Arno ventured into the depths of an underground subculture. Working on assignment for a series on swindles in the Asian marketplace, he tailed shortchange artists, pickpockets, and fake-jewelry hustlers, whose main targets were GIs on R&R leave. His exposés caught the attention of the U.S. Military and he was asked to give lectures on the subject. His presentations, complete with demos and comedy, were so well-received he took his "act" into show business. Today, his peripatetic lecture-show has been seen by millions all over the world.

A one-hour lecture available, with or without comedy entertainment. "The Illicit Acquisition Game: Inside information on how to deal with the problem of modern-day rogues." Bob reveals the latest scams an ordinary citizen is likely to encounter, common personal theft strategies currently operating in popular travel destinations, and how to avoid becoming a victim. He puts it all in perspective with lightness and humor, and sensitivity to the fun and necessity of international travel. This presentation, given to business travelers as well as experts such as police forces and security professionals, is regularly praised as "fascinating," "educational," and "invaluable."

Current research qualifies Bob Arno as a world expert on street crimes. For the past few years, he has been "in the field," tracking and filming real street thieves in action, in the capital cities of Europe and in the Far East. Bob Arno's extraordinary footage reveals the techniques of his less scrupulous colleagues, as well as their victims' moments of terrible realization. As a veteran legitimate pickpocket and an expert on con games, Bob narrates the footage with insight and authority.

Bob Arno's expertise in this rather unusual field is derived from 35 years of research, including extensive interviews with security and police forces around the world, as well as with actual victims and real pickpockets. His knowledge of the latest worldwide trends in street crime covers not only pickpocketing, but also many other forms of rip-off. For example: Bangkok jewelry scams; Hong Kong credit card counterfeiters with worldwide nodes; East European train muggers; Russian short-change artists; roving Pakistani and Filipino pickpocket gangs working the Far East, and the sophisticated Colombian pickpocket gangs who tour American airports; to mention a few of the crimes very much on the increase.

True identity theft is another devastating scam on the uprise, damaging the personal credit of ordinary consumers with consequences that drag on for years. How can your identity be stolen? What might be committed in your name? And what does true identity theft have to do with pickpocketing, anyway?

Invaluable information, demonstrations, exclusive video footage, and facts you need to know, will help ensure you never become a victim.