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Based on file updatesBetween approximately 1996 and 1998, Steven Bain and Steven Gawthrop, two men in Southport, Merseyside, England ran a scam to trick people into surrendering socks. They became known as the Southport Sockmen.
Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani is a Pakistani-born businessman who was the former president and chief operating officer of Theranos, which was a privately held health technology company founded by his then-girlfriend Elizabeth Holmes.
Theresa Rose Lawson was an Australian convicted fraudster. She was a Woolworths payroll clerk and St Marys Band Club director, who stole more than A$2.7 million over a three-year period from 1999 to 2002.
American masquerading as a business man who turned out to be a con man; former CEO and chairman of Petters Group Worldwide; resigned his position as CEO in 2008 amid mounting criminal investigations; later convicted for turning Petters G...
Thérèse Humbert was a French female fraudster, who pretended to be an heir of an imaginary American millionaire named Robert Crawford.
perpetrator of the 1963 Salad oil scandal, which ultimately caused over $180 million ($ billion today) in losses to 51 corporations.