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The con artists who cheated their way to riches

Spectacular scammers
Inventing Anna Delvey, the German heiress
Extravagant life and lies
Did her crime pay?
The scammer of the stars, Christophe Rocancourt
Sophia Loren's son?
Christopher Rocancourt, Orphan, Playboy, Prisoner
Frank William Abagnale Jr: Pilot, doctor, lawyer, con man
From con man to helping the feds
Catch him if you can
Anthony Gignac or Prince of Saudi Arabia?
A fake Saudi royal from Colombia
Fake heiress Cassie Chadwick
Fortune telling and conning
Cassie Chadwick is finally jailed
Fake soccer star Carlos Kaiser
The soccer star who didn't play
Anne and John Darwin's life insurance scam
A canoe and a case of amnesia
Caught and jailed
Fake French minister
Ransom attack
Fake French minister even conned royalty
Edward Putman's fake lottery ticket
Fraudulent winning ticket
Life of luxury
Mark Acklom's romance scam
Scammed his own parents
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Spectacular scammers

Russian-born German twentysomething Anna Sorokin fooled New York's elite when she posed as a German heiress called Anna Delvey, who supposedly had a $66 million trust fund, and her sensational story is being turned into a series by Netflix. From Sorokin's charade to a supposed Russian grand duchess to a man who faked his death in a canoe, click or scroll through to discover the scammers who lied their way to the high life...

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12 June 2021

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