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Fortune Seller: A TV Scam is a Netflix docuseries about Italian TV personality Wanna Marchi and her daughter Stefania Nobile, convicted for a massive fraud scheme that defrauded roughly 300,000 people across Italy between 1996 and 2001.

The Big Conn is an Apple TV+ documentary series about Kentucky attorney Eric C. Conn, who orchestrated the largest Social Security disability fraud in U.S. history, cheating taxpayers out of hundreds of millions of dollars.

DRTV documentary series about the 2023 collapse of Danish auction house Lauritz.com, leaving thousands of customers unpaid for more than DKK 50 million.

Dobbeltmorder på spil igen is a TV 2 Play documentary series about Helle Sara Peters, a Danish woman convicted of two murders in 2001 who later committed fraud while serving her life sentence at home.

The Thabo Bester case is a South African prison-escape scandal in which a convicted rapist and murderer faked his own death with a burned corpse and fled custody in May 2022.

Danish true-crime documentary series on HBO Max about Britta Nielsen, who stole over DKK 117 million from public welfare funds over 25 years before being arrested in South Africa.

Don't Pick Up the Phone is a Netflix documentary series about the decade-long strip-search phone hoax that targeted fast-food restaurants across the U.S., with the 2004 McDonald's case in Mount Washington, Kentucky as its most notorious incident.

Murdaugh Murders: Deadly Dynasty is an HBO Max docuseries about the 2021 double murder of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh and the fraud-riddled downfall of attorney Alex Murdaugh.

The Scheme is an HBO Max documentary series about the FBI's sprawling investigation into college basketball's pay-to-play recruitment corruption scandal, centering on sports agent Christian Dawkins.

The Crime of the Century is a two-part HBO Max documentary by Alex Gibney examining how pharmaceutical companies and drug distributors fueled America's deadly opioid crisis.

Low Country: The Murdaugh Dynasty is an HBO Max docuseries about the murders of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh and the sprawling fraud and corruption surrounding attorney Alex Murdaugh.

Netflix docuseries about Francisco Nicolás Gómez Iglesias, the young Spanish con man who infiltrated political, royal, and intelligence circles — and was arrested in 2014.

Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal is a Netflix documentary series about attorney Alex Murdaugh, convicted of murdering his wife and son in 2021 amid a sprawling fraud scandal in South Carolina.

Skyggesiden – Den sorte svane is a TV 2 Play documentary tied to Den sorte svane, exposing a 900-million-DKK money-laundering network in Denmark.

Danish docudrama on TV 2 Play about the IT Factory fraud scandal, in which CEO Stein Bagger was convicted in 2009 for one of Denmark's largest ever swindles.

Dena Thompson, known as 'The Black Widow,' was convicted of murdering her husband Julian Webb in 1994 through poisoning at their Sussex home after targeting men through lonely-hearts advertisements.

A Spanish fraud case in which Francisco Nicolás Gómez Iglesias posed as a government insider, deceiving institutions and businesses across Madrid from 2014 until his arrest and conviction.

Lou Pearlman, Musikmanager der Backstreet Boys und *NSYNC, betrieb über 20 Jahre ein Ponzi-Schema, das Investoren um über 300 Millionen Dollar betrog, bevor er 2008 zu 25 Jahren Haft verurteilt wurde.

Tonia Haddix täuschte jahrelang vor, der Schimpanse Tonka sei tot, um Gerichtsbeschlüsse zu umgehen. US-Marshals fanden ihn 2024 lebend in ihrem Keller.

Operation Varsity Blues ist der Name eines US-Bundesstrafverfahrens aus dem Jahr 2019, das eine landesweite Verschwörung aufdeckte: Wohlhabende Eltern zahlten Bestechungsgelder, um ihren Kindern Studienplätze an Eliteuniversitäten wie Yale, Stanford und der USC zu sichern.