The following is an alphabetical list of notable people known to have committed fraud.
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Alfredo Sáenz Abad, retired in 2013 as CEO and vice-chairman of the Spanish bank Santander Group; in lower executive position in early 1990s, lied about bank loans so that some customers to the bank went to prison, sentenced to prison years later but managed to get a pardon and kept his job Frank Abagnale Jr., American impostor who wrote bad checks in 12 countries until arrested in 1969: falsely represented himself as a qualified member of professions such as airline pilot, doctor, attorney, and teacher; the film Catch Me If You Can is based on his life Ramon Olorunwa Abbas, also known as Hushpuppi, Nigerian former Instagram influencer and fraudster and money launderer that operated from Dubai. John Bodkin Adams, British doctor and suspected years-long serial killer, but only found guiltyin 1957of forging wills and prescriptions related to over 300 deceased patients Eddie Antar, founder of Crazy Eddie; has criminal convictions on 17 counts and about $1 billion worth of civil judgments against him stemming from fraudulent accounting practices at that company Ruben Oskar Auervaara, a notorious Finnish conman and thief. He became famous by cheating money from women he met through newspaper announcements, by pretending to intend to marry them. His surname has become a concept in the Finnish language, meaning a deceptive charming trickster. Mehmet Aydın, Turkish entrepreneur; scammed 1.1 billion lira from 132 thousand people in a single year and went underground. Searched by Interpol with red notice due to qualified fraud.
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Jordan Belfort swindled over $200 million via a penny stock boiler room operation. The Wolf of Wall Street is based on his life and fraudulent activity. Horatio Bottomley, newspaper owner and Member of Parliament, convicted of fraudulent conversion.
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Melissa Caddick, Australian who ran a Ponzi scheme and thereby defrauded friends and close relatives. Cassie Chadwick, pretended to be Andrew Carnegie's illegitimate daughter to get loans Charlene Corley, who with her twin sister ran a company which used enormously inflated shipping costs to defraud the United States Department of Defense out of $21.5 million.
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Edward Davenport, self-styled as a "Lord"; from 2005 to 2009 was the "ringmaster" of a series of advance-fee fraud schemes for (non-existent) loans that defrauded dozens of individuals out of millions of pounds, while costing his clients further hundreds of millions in losses when they signed development property commitments backed by their anticipated loans Tino De Angelis, perpetrator of the 1963 Salad oil scandal, which ultimately caused over $180 million ($ billion today) in losses to 51 corporations. Marc Dreier, managing founder of law firm Dreir LLP, a $700 million Ponzi scheme from 2004 to 2008 Enric Durán, from 2006 to 2008, took out 68 commercial and personal loans from a total of 39 banks in Spain with no guarantees or property as collateral, then gave the €500,000 to various anti-capitalist movements
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Bernard Ebbers, founder of WorldCom, which went bankrupt in 2002 having inflated its asset statements by about $11 billion ($ billion today)
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Ramón Báez Figueroa, banker from the Dominican Republic and former President of Banco Intercontinental (BANINTER), charged in 2003 and later sentenced to 10 years in prison for a U.S. $2.2 billion fraud case ($ billion today). The BANINTER Crisis was overwhelming for the small Dominican economy, equivalent to two-thirds of its national budget. Martin Frankel, American former financier, convicted in 2002 of insurance fraud worth $208 million, racketeering and money laundering
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Anthony Gignac, a serial con man and fraudster who falsely took on the identity of Saudi prince Khalid bin Al Saud to entrap victims in investment scams and other schemes, currently serving an 18-year jail sentence