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- The rise and fall of Harshad Mehta, a stockbroker who single-handedly took the stock market to great heights, is depicted.
- Born in Khanapur in Karnataka, Telgi became the mastermind behind one of the most ingenious schemes in Indian history that spread across multiple states and shook the entire country.
- The film is conceived as a video game where every link in society, from the highest to the lowest has its role in creating the perfect vision of fraud, not knowing who cheats, and who is deceived.
- When a young pregnant woman flees an abusive relationship in the middle of the night, a grieving couple takes her in, propelling their family on the adoption journey from hell.
- The corruption runs deeper than you'd ever think. A multi-billion dollar industry you've never heard of. This is the world Patent Trolls thrive in: created for them by the U.S. Patent system.
- Two insurance agents stumble upon several mysterious cases of people with life insurance policies from their company dying accidental deaths. The duo starts an investigation to find the truth.
- A group of brokers stumble onto a gangster-manipulated stock and descend into distrust and betrayal.
- Each year, people around the world lose millions of dollars to a highly sophisticated scam known as 'the pig butchering romance scam'. It takes its name from the victims, who scammers call 'pigs' - those they can 'fatten' before 'butchering'. Scammers target individuals on dating sites and social media, posing as attractive, successful professionals. They seduce and manipulate their victims, winning their trust before luring them to invest on sham crypto currency platforms. But behind the fake online profiles is a much darker reality. Those conducting the scams often do so against their will, trafficked to huge, walled compounds in south east Asia. A new investigation by the BBC World Service's investigations team BBC Eye takes you inside one of these scam compounds in Cambodia, where people from all over the world are locked up, beaten, starved and forced to scam - all at the hands of criminal gangs. We tell the story of Didi, a trafficked victim who was secretly filming his experience from inside the notorious Huang Le compound. He started sharing his videos with the BBC and The Global Anti-Scam Organisation (Gaso), a volunteer-run group who help rescue and support trafficked victims. We follow his incredible journey as he escapes and makes his way back home to China. We meet two scam victims, one in the US and the other in China, who lost millions of dollars and had their lives turned upside down. And there is exclusive access to a former scam boss, whose company stole millions of US dollars over the years from victims using a manual he designed.
- Your phone is private. Or is it? A BBC investigation exposes the blackmail scam causing misery in India.
- In a near future America ruled by corporations, the Devil is in the details and nothing is what it seems. When the daughter of a wealthy CEO and her boyfriend scheme to fake her kidnapping and skip the country with a small fortune, her lover solicits the help of a seasoned freelance mercenary; but everyone has ulterior motives. As their plan spirals out of control, the three partners in crime come face-to-face with their own inner demons. Soon, two men's greed and one woman's desire lead to murder... and a horrifying personal revelation.
- Fifteen-year-old Ruby Skye asks a lot of questions: Why is her best friend Griffin lying? Why does the new school janitor have such clean fingernails? And why is her happy-go-lucky neighbor so depressed? Ruby's snooping leads to a startling discovery: her neighbor has lost all of her money to an e-mail scam. Ruby vows to find the thief and get the money back. When she traces the scam e-mail back to her school's computers, things get personal. Is the scammer someone she knows? And could that someone be her lying best friend with the brand-new big-screen TV? Ruby can't stop herself. She must solve the mystery, even it means losing everyone she loves along the way.
- A businessman and a scientist who believes a major ecological catastrophe is coming. He decides to use this information to make a killing in the business world. His plan faces a big hurdle when he falls in love.
- A Greek gym-owner in New York, Michalis, is forced to ask for a loan from the richest man in Astoria, Antonis, who has connections with the underworld. Antonis also has a daughter, Martha, who is involved with the son of his friend Charis. Antonis willingly gives him the loan, without knowing, however, that his son-in-law Nikos, husband of his eldest daughter Elli, is using Michalis in a major scam to steal the money he has withheld from the internal revenue service. When Apergis' plan is completed and Antonis asks for the money owed, Michalis closes down the gym and leaves for Greece. Then, Antonis follows him to Athens, where he finds out about the entire plot. He also discovers that Nikos was one of the robbers of a bank in New York, which he was planning to flee with his young lover. Antonis apologizes to Michalis and allows his daughter to marry the man she loves.
- A funny and in-depth look at Steven Joel Kerzner and Liana Kerzner's fundraisers - what they promised, how much they took in donations, what they actually delivered, and where it actually might have gone.
- A team of con artists think they've found the perfect setup conning pedophiles. That is until they extort the wrong man whose connections threaten to wipe them all out.
- The story of Bernie Madoff, his colossal confidence scam and how it both reflected and contributed to the 2008 economic crash.
- The stage is set for a cracker of a scintillating coming of age crime drama which sees Mnqobi caught up in the underbelly of financial crime.
- Two stories and two protagonists with mirrored narration and motivation.
- A father seeks revenge for his daughter death.
- TV Mini Series
- The Internet is flooded with e-mails promising money-making business proposals, lottery win notifications, and fabulous inheritances. This is the story of how one man's involvement with such an Internet scam ruined his life.
- Two layabouts pretend to be mentally ill to fool people on the street and get money to buy some beers but... somebody is watching them.
- 419: The Internet Romance Scam' follows the stories of two middle-aged British women - Brenda and Caroline - who were both scammed in late 2009 by men using fake identities. Despite similar beginnings - a work trip to West Africa, followed by a terrible car crash, and a plea for urgent hospital fees, the stories take staggeringly different twists.
- A group of three run a scam filming men attempting to have sex with under age girls and then extort them for money. But they extort the wrong guy. He sends a hitman after them.
- Michael is home alone playing video games when the doorbell rings. A young man who says he volunteers for the local church is asking for donations. Michael is sympathetic to his cause, but doesn't have any money to give. He sees the video games and asks Michael if he'd be willing to donate them to the church. After hearing about the church's mission, Michael decides to give him a brand new PS5 and XBox one, not knowing this purported volunteer is actually a con artist who's scamming the entire neighborhood.
- TV Series
- From Greymouth to São Paulo's slums, Roy Arbon's adventure ends in kidnap and imprisonment on foreign soil leaving him facing life behind bars. Uncovering every twist and turn of his riches-to-rags ride, does he really understand how close he came to catastrophe?
- The World's Greatest Gambling Scams" reveals the stings that have rocked gambling, from the high-profile cases that have hooked Hollywood to the secrets that casinos keep hidden.
- Louise Peterson is taking care of her husband Irving. His recent diagnosis of dementia has been extremely painful for the Peterson family. Despite his declining health, Mr. Peterson is determined to keep enjoying each day to the fullest. However, the household chores and repairs that he used to take care of, he must now hire a handyman to do. One day, while Louise is out running errands, the handyman decides to use Mr. P's impairment to his advantage, and tries to scam the Petersons out of thousands of dollars.
- A married couple's attempt to scam a beloved charity-based reality show leads to a major conflict with the host, whose obsession to reveal their misdeeds brings trouble for all involved.
- As a magician, Brian's wise to all the tricks used by frauds, tricksters, and scam artists ...and now he's ready to take YOU to scam school.
- Scammers, stoners, lovers, public access-ers. To win back the love of her life, Johnny enlists her crew of misfit con artists to launch ARTGASMS!, her very own public access show.
- A petty crook gets involved in an Internet scam, and his efforts to extricate himself only pull him in further.
- An elderly woman opens an email that leads her into the welcoming arms of an international crime ring.