Cons
Photos of Trekkies Celebrating 50 Years of the 23rd Century
VICE sent photographer Maggine Shannon to boldly go where a bunch of Star Trek fans were hanging out.
How to Survive Life in a British Prison
Some tips from a former inmate that go beyond the stereotypes of endless rapes and shankings.
Ephren Taylor’s Disastrous Megachurch Ponzi Scheme
How Ephren Taylor, the son of a small-town minister and self-proclaimed "social capitalist," conned thousands of churchgoers out of their life savings.
The Band That Tried to Make Money From Spotify Have Been Banned From Spotify
They recorded an album of silence and asked fans to play it while they slept, hoping to generate profit. It worked! And then they got caught. Whoops!
We Spent Months Scamming a Scammer into Doing Our Work for Us
Scam-baiting is a form of internet vigilantism in which the vigilante poses as a potential victim to expose a scammer. The cover of the issue you're looking at is a trophy from the most elaborate bait I've ever been involved in.
Welcome to the Skammerz Ishu
The newest edition of our magazine is dedicated to the lying, stealing, scamming, hustling, and deluding that goes on all over the world every day, from the casual cons pulled by card sharks underneath the Eiffel Tower to the exploitation of the...
I Conned Cairo Pharmacies Out of Drugs
We obtained some black-market passports with such ease that it made us wonder what other illegal shit we could get our hands on in Egypt. So we embarked on a pharmaceutical excursion.