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The Real Hustle is a BBC British television series created by Objective Productions, Alexis Conran and R. Paul Wilson for BBC Three.The show demonstrates confidence and magic tricks, distraction scams and proposition bets performed on members of the public by hosts Alexis Conran, Paul Wilson and Jessica-Jane Clement.
The show profiles various cases involving corporate fraud and white collar crimes. Some of the episodes profile two of these cases in a single episode. The show has been on the air since June 21, 2007, and was renewed for its 15th season, which started airing in January 2022. Stacy Keach is the narrator for the series.
American Greed (also known as American Greed: Scams, Scoundrels and Scandals and as American Greed: Scams, Schemes and Broken Dreams) is an American documentary television series on CNBC. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The series focuses on cases of Ponzi schemes , embezzlement and other white collar crimes and features interviews with police investigators, fraud ...
The series received mostly positive reviews from critics, with praise for the performances and writing. Sayan Ghosh of The Hindu wrote "Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story is a well-written show with its lead characters doing all the heavy lifting.
The BBC described the series as an attempt "to reveal how the scams work so that the viewer can avoid being ripped off by the same con". [47] All five of the lead actors again reprised their roles in the third series, which featured guest stars including Richard Chamberlain, [48] Linford Christie, Sara Cox and Paul Nicholls. [49]
Of the respondents surveyed by GOBankingRates, 21.85% have lost anywhere between zero to $250 to scams, fraud and identity theft. Ages 45 to 54 For 24% of Americans ages 45 to 54, they have lost ...
The second series was broadcast in October–November 2016, continuing with most of the characters from the first series, but with the main focus on a bank practising P2P lending and their attempted takeover by a bank whose chair, Knud Christensen, was behind the fraud case investigated in the first season. [1]
McMillions (stylized as McMillion$) is a documentary miniseries about the McDonald's Monopoly promotion scam that occurred between 1989 and 2001. Directed by James Lee Hernandez and Brian Lazarte, the series details how the scam was perpetrated by Jerry Jacobson, [1] the head of security for the agency that ran the promotion, and how he recruited a wide range of accomplices.