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.
