Comedy
Con-man Comedy, by Bob Arno, World’s Greatest Pickpocket and America’s Funniest Con Man – Prepare to be conned!
Interactive stealth comedy with the world’s only legal pickpocket. Bob Arno’s career spans over 20 years on the Las Vegas strip. Bob has been profiled on most major news programs and featured many times on ABC 20/20, NBC Dateline, CNN and FOX and Friends. National Geographic’s Pickpocket King, a documentary about Bob Arno, now has over ten million views on YouTube.
Zero to hilarity in 60 seconds. Have you got a minute? Because that’s all it takes for Bob Arno to shift an audience through a full range of emotions: confusion, surprise, admiration, intrigue, and awe. From then on, he maintains a steady pace of hilarity. Comedy, satire, and slick scams are cleverly blended into a superbly-executed professional demonstration of pickpocketing, revealing the sly tricks of pickpockets who prowl city streets worldwide.
Suave and foxy, the gentleman thief doesn’t stop at the usual pinching of wallets, watches, and pocket contents. Nothing a “victim” possesses is safe from Bob Arno’s lightning lifts. Although he makes his brand of thievery respectable, he nevertheless generates a lurking sense of danger, proving again and again that no one is immune to his cunning diversions. His blend of brilliant thievery, pure visual hilarity, and savage wit makes him a first-class sensation at corporate affairs and special events worldwide.
Security awareness
Risk Management for Strategic Advantage
Bob Arno is a White-Hat Pickpocket and Crime Prevention specialist, working globally in counter intelligence.
Bob Arno is a leading international provider of risk management solutions for the business and leisure sectors. He sets up confrontations that push buttons, poke fun, and provoke gut reactions usually held tightly in check. He touches on themes that haunt and intrigue the curious mind: treachery, risk-taking, dishonesty, and dangerous pursuits.
Bob has researched distraction theft and con-artistry in the field for more than 20 years. While investigating scams, cons, and organized crime in the world’s top travel destinations, he infiltrates global criminal gangs that perpetrate pervasive crime against travelers. Through personal interaction and a unique way of befriending the thieves, he gathers intelligence and hidden camera footage.
He takes you to the grittiest corners of paradise with his own extraordinary hidden camera footage. It’s no wonder that unmentionable agencies have hired him for covert and clandestine special operations where the need for sensitivity and political astuteness is paramount. For over twenty years he has been training law enforcement in the USA and Europe, and working intimately within global counter-intelligence units.
Bob’s topics include:
- Is your competition picking your pocket?
- Gain the competitive advantage
- The Illicit Acquisitions Game
- Data-mining and intellectual property theft
- Travel safety and identity theft
- Competitive intelligence
What do MasterCard, Infosys, Bank of America, Ikea, Blue Cross, Norton-LifeLock, and AARP have in common? They’ve all had their pockets picked by Bob Arno, con artist of the conference trade. Bob provokes extraordinary audience reaction, and is that rare presenter who galvanizes any given group with human drama, invaluable advice, and comic relief.
If it takes a thief to know a thief, and you want to know the latest trends in corporate and personal security, then Bob Arno is the perfect choice for your next conference. Lean, lanky and a little larcenous, this infotainer is also provocative, intelligent, thrilling, edgy, and very, very entertaining. Highlight is a word liberally applied to him by his corporate clients.
Tactical observation skills lifted from the street are useful in the boardroom and business lunch. Illustrated with demos, brought to life with video, and peppered with humor and anecdotes, Bob Arno’s upbeat talks teach awareness and the importance of observation as a strategy to gain the competitive advantage in business relationships.
He co-authored the 2003 taxonomy of thieves, Travel Advisory: How to Avoid Thefts, Cons, and Street Scams. Thiefhunters in Paradise is his blog about street thievery worldwide. You can watch Bob’s National Geographic documentary “Pickpocket King” (in which he infiltrates an organized pickpocket gang in Italy), which premiered in thirty countries in late 2012 and has now gained over 10 million views on YouTube.
Identity theft
The Illicit Acquisitions Game
How thieves acquire your riches and how to stop them
A backdoor perspective and a thief’s-eye version of thievery, connery, scamdom, and swindlehood; and more important, how to avoid becoming an unwilling participant. Bob Arno shares inside information to help you deal with the threat of modern-day rogues. Advice, demonstrations, video, and facts you need to help ensure you never become a victim.
To most security professionals, credit card thieves are invisible, mysterious, nefarious beings—rarely seen and never comprehended. Bob Arno, an international criminologist and white-hat pickpocket, has hunted pickpockets and identity thieves in the wild since 1994. From infiltrating these criminal gangs around the world, Bob can reveal the hearts, souls, and faces of the men, women, and children who make their living by taking the money and property of others. Bob’s backdoor perspective will give you the thief’s-eye version of thievery, connery, scamdom, and swindlehood; and more important, how to avoid becoming an unwilling participant. As an expert in criminal body language, micro-expressions, telltale behavior, props, and methodology, Bob’s own legendary skills in thievery make him a danger to anyone in the vicinity.
Bob Arno will deliver and expose the following:
- Tracking credit card thieves, operating globally — their networks, the latest skimming techniques, and new internet “spear phishing.”
- Projection of real crime videos, recorded with “button cameras” of inter-action with actual criminals. Bob has gone deep undercover, inside some of these networks. Highly edited, into very brief sound bites, show instantly authenticity, and grainy “reality” atmosphere,
- Working within global counter intelligence units — teaching “seals units” unusual skills (think: surveillance avoidance by foreign intelligence units),
- Latest trends on apprehending (or tracking of) radicalized elements (without compromising national interests),
- Finally, a brief summarization of real-world risks. How we understand and evaluate trust, and its relationship to social engineering and competitive intelligence.
