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Pepsi, Where's My Jet? is a Netflix docuseries about Leonard v. PepsiCo, Inc., the real 1990s lawsuit in which a young man sued Pepsi for a fighter jet advertised in a TV commercial.

The Centra Tech fraud case is a U.S. cryptocurrency securities fraud scheme in which three founders raised over $25 million through false claims and celebrity endorsements in 2017.

The Derek Alldred case is a U.S. federal romance-scam and identity-fraud case in which a Minnesota man defrauded at least 27 women of about $2 million using fake personas.

In April 1983, the German magazine Stern announced a sensational discovery: Adolf Hitler's private diaries. The publication presented the documents as the world's most sought-after historical artifact, but within weeks the entire story collapsed when experts exposed the diaries as an elaborate forgery created by a single talented counterfeiter.