mass fraud

The Madoff investment scandal is the largest Ponzi scheme in history, in which financier Bernie Madoff defrauded tens of thousands of investors worldwide out of an estimated $64.8 billion.

The Wanna Marchi case is an Italian mass-fraud scheme in which tele-saleswoman Wanna Marchi and her daughter Stefania Nobile defrauded an estimated 250,000–300,000 victims through television-based curse and lottery scams between 1996 and 2001.

Myth & Mogul: John DeLorean is a Netflix documentary series about automaker John DeLorean, charged in 1982 with cocaine trafficking in an FBI sting and ultimately acquitted.

New podcast series Fraudacious puts the international fraudster Ekaterina Barrett under the microscope, as her best friend and victim Bridget Hutchcroft recounts a loan of over £1 million that was never repaid.

This podcast episode dives into the Wirecard scandal, in which the German payments company falsified its accounts and made 1.9 billion euros vanish without a trace.