Audacious Fraudsters

Alexandro. Guillermo. David. The Prince of Denmark. Juan. Whoever he is and whatever identity he’s using today, this cunning international con man has been relieving the world’s richest hotel guests of their money and jewels for two decades. With a plot straight out of a Hollywood blockbuster, an obsessive ex Met detective is determined to track down the man at the heart of the story…

Kiwi-born Ollie Wards chronicles how his brother’s whirlwind romance with a charismatic Californian con woman ultimately cost his family more than a million dollars. With kooky plot twists to rival a Hollywood movie, the 7 episode series follows Ollie from sleepy suburban New Zealand on an international investigation spanning Hawaii, the UK and the US.

The Dropout tells the story of the rise and fall of former Silicon Valley darling Elizabeth Holmes, the youngest self-made female billionaire. She dropped out of Stanford to launch her company Theranos — claiming her technology could detect hundreds of diseases from a drop or two of blood. If it worked, she would have changed healthcare forever. ABC News Podcasts.

Chameleon unspools the story of one of the weirdest and wildest scams in history. Over the past seven years, hundreds of Hollywood gig workers have been fooled into flying to Indonesia for a movie that doesn’t exist. Tag along as two long-time journalists untangle the story of the Hollywood Con Queen scam, and embark upon an obsessive quest to figure out who’s behind it.

The woman who scammed New York. It was a scandal that shook a city’s wealthy elite. In Fake Heiress, a podcast from BBC Radio 4, journalist Vicky Baker charts the rise and fall of Anna Delvey, who conned New York high society into believing that she was a multi-millionaire heiress. Here Vicky explains the story of one of the most successful impostors of our time.

Dr Ruja Ignatova called herself the Cryptoqueen. She told people she had invented a cryptocurrency to rival Bitcoin, and persuaded them to invest billions. Then she disappeared. Jamie Bartlett spent months investigating how she did it for the Missing Cryptoqueen podcast, and trying to figure out where she’s hiding. He presents a story of greed, deceit and herd madness.

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The founders of WeWork thought they were on the brink of making history. The company was valued at $47 billion dollars, it was ready for a huge IPO, and its charismatic CEO Adam Neumann thought they were going to change the world. Adam had a prophet-like vision for WeWork that he sold to some of the world’s savviest investors — but did his vision ever match the company’s reality? WeCrashed is a six-part series about the rise and fall of WeWork. It’s a story of hope and hubris, big money and bigger screwups, and the lengths people will go to chase “unicorns.”