Scammed!
This series features some of the most incredible fraud crimes from around the globe. The criminals are intelligent, well-dressed and often appear trustworthy, leaving many people vulnerable to their nefarious schemes.
Credit Card / Investment Fraud / Advanced Fee
We look at how credit card skimming works, then a quick look into the trust required for scammers to pull off an investment fraud.
Military / ID Theft
We explore the story of a young soldier who returns home to find his identity has been stolen and his credit rating ruined. Despite being able to prove he was in Iraq, he cannot shake the bad credit and his life slowly falls apart.
Counterfeit Products
At the world's largest sports memorabilia conference, leading experts speak about the breadth of counterfeit products.
Affinity
Affinity frauds are perpetrated against people of particular social or ethnic groups. Two criminals prey upon trusting groups of people who do not fear or would never suspect being taken advantage of by someone from within their own community.
Charity
This episode exposes two different charity schemes: a fake disaster relief website that takes donations and funnels them into criminals accounts, the other a scam in which a person pretends to have cancer so they can collect donations for personal use.
Automotive
This episode concerns automobile fraud, documenting one man's journey through encounters with an unscrupulous car salesmen. The second story involves the maintenance and tampering of air bags.
Ponzi Saxton
In the early 20th century a man scammed people out of their savings through an elaborate plan that is now referred to as a Ponzi scheme.
Butler Ponzi
In this episode we study the Butler case. Jeff Butler targeted elderly people for his Ponzi scheme, in which he stole over 12 million dollars from people he had befriended.
Lotto
A group of fraudsters ran a scheme that stretched all over the globe, becoming a family fraud that lasted over twenty years by sending out thousands of forged lotto letters.
Funeral Cemetery
This episode uncovers the horrifying story of a funeral home outside Chicago involved with selling recycled graves by disposing of the original remains and burying the new.
Romance Fraud
All relationships encounter their share of problems, but when one partner lies and defrauds the other of their savings, it becomes a crime.
ID Theft
In this episode we meet Detectives Glass and Staab as they guide us through two fascinating Identity theft cases.
Elderly Fraud
In this episode, these elderly people have their retirement savings plundered by everyone from their trusted fiduciaries, new romantic interests and even their own children.
