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Kenneth Ira Starr (born 1943/1944) is an American accountant and former money manager [1] convicted of running a $35 million Ponzi scheme with the money of numerous wealthy and celebrity clients.
Ferdinand De Wilton Ward, Jr. (1851–1925), known first as the "Young Napoleon of Finance," [1] and subsequently as "the Best-Hated Man in the United States," was an American swindler. The collapse of his Ponzi scheme caused the financial ruin of many people, including famous persons such as Thomas Nast and the former U.S. President Ulysses S ...
Simon Leviev (Hebrew: סיימון לבייב; born Shimon Yehuda Hayut, 27 September 1990) is an Israeli businessman convicted of forgery and fraud.According to The Times of Israel, between 2017 and 2019 he allegedly conned an estimated $1 billion dollars from people and banks in a Ponzi scheme.
Charles Ponzi (1882–1949): Italian swindler and con artist; "Ponzi scheme" is a type of fraud named after him. [14] Soapy Smith (1860–1898): American con artist and gangster in Denver and Creede, Colorado and Skagway, Alaska, in the 1880s and 1890s [15]
Film actor Zachary Horwitz was sentenced to 20 years in prison after admitting he faked HBO and Netflix film deals in a $650-million Ponzi scheme.
The movie is a mash-up of true-crime cases like “The Tinder Swindler,” “Love Fraud” and others. What to Watch Saturday: Lifetime ‘Swindler’ movie takes on romantic scammers Skip to ...
The Tinder Swindler is a British true crime documentary film directed by Felicity Morris and released to streaming on Netflix on 2 February 2022. [1] The documentary tells the story of the Israeli conman Simon Leviev (born Shimon Hayut) who used the dating application Tinder to connect with individuals who he then emotionally manipulated into financially supporting his lavish lifestyle on the ...
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