List of Fraudsters, Impostors and Cases of Fraud

Fraud Topics

Carcass trade
Dissolving cheque
Fare-beating
Filing a false tax return
Fraud Against the Government
Fraudulent billing
Fraudulent loan
Insurance-underwriting racket –
Jobbing firm, fraudulent business
Just-a-few-dollar-more scam
Mail-order fraud
Major procurement fraud
Marinated money scam
Million-dollar dump
Money-making machine
Phoney money-producing scheme
Phony accident claim
Phony land promotion
Phony medium
Rent-to-steal
Social fraud
Straw-man swindle
Titular fraud –

Specific cases of fraud

Abuja airport scam
All Kind Services, fake wedding service
Borgstena fraud, Denmark
Centrifugal Energy Amplification and Conversion Unit (CEACV), investment fraud
Dongua Ecological Breeding Company, bogus investment scheme in China
Gold accumulator
Tri-West Investment Club

Fraudsters

Abraham Abdullah, US fake celebrity agent
Ajit Trikha, US psychiatrist and Medicare fraudster
Angel Cruz (fraudster), US fraudster
Anthony Williams (embezzler), Anthony Michael John Williams, Scotland Yard Deputy Director of Finance and embezzler
Antonio Jiminez Moreno, US welfare fraud
Arne Aarold, Norwegian conman
Bobby Findley, US swindler
Bragadino, Mamugna, Renaissance charlatan alchemist
Carlos Lomax, US identity thief
Christian Kiechukwu Anajemba, Nigerian scammer
Cole Bartiromo, fraudster
Cole Bartiromo, US stock fraudster
Courtney C. Julian, US conman
Cristal Cambell OR Cristal Campbell, US con artist
Daniel Brown (fraudster), defrauded US Veteran’s Administration for 20 years
Daniel Todt, US lawyer and fraudster
Dorothy Mae Woods, US “Welfare Queen”
Eida Beguinua, fraudster
Elizabeth Albanese, Lisa Jeanne Albanese, US journalist, president of the Press Club of Dallas and fraudster
Ellen Peck (con artist), Nellie Crosby [1829-1915] Queen of Confidence Women
Emma Golightly, British fraudster and multiple bigamist
Faye Shilling, US fraudster with fake life insurance policies
Howard Awand, US suspected fraud fixer
Hsu-Shian-ming, Taiwanese conman
Huang Shishan, Chinese bank deputy and embezzler
Jean Kay, French con artist
Joe Furey (con artist), US conman
John Balbo, US conman
John Kelly (fraud), US “claims adjuster”for Ringling Brothers circus
Jussi Uoti, Finnish businessman and fraudster
Kari Uoti, Finnish businessman and fraudster
Koji Kurata, Japanese conman
Leontina Espinoza, Chilean woman who did not give birth to 58 children
Lucian Kozminski, Polish-born US fraudster
Mahinder Mayell, US dentist & Medicaid fraudster
Marc Colombo (financier), Lloyds’ financial trader who caused millions of losses
Mark Ledley, con artist
Michael Kinsell, US fraudster
Mohamed Roshan Zameer, scam artist
Nomatter Tagarira, Zimbabwean diesel spirit medium
Paavo Riekkinen, Finnish medical researcher and embezzler
Prescott Ford Jernegan, US fraudster with Gold Accumulator
Rajendra Sethia, Indian fraudster
Rosio Costello, US welfare fraud
Sante and Kenneth Kimes, US fraudsters
Serge Rubinstein, US diamond swindler
Steve Warshak, US “male enhancement”scammer
Thomas Osmond faked a suicide to avoid a sex offence trial
Tony Golossian, Australian religious conman
Tuvia Stern, US scammer
Wang Zhendong, Chinese ant-breeding conman sentenced to death in 2007
Yukiko Ikebe, Japanese tax fraudster
Zakariya Ghani, Pakistani fraudster

Impostors

Alexis Comnemnus
Anne Buiret
Augustus Meres, false dauphin
Avraam Uri Kovner, Russian Jewish impostor
Barbora Skrlova, Czech impostor in Norway
Elda Bequinua, British fake countess
Eleazor Williams, false dauphin
Erivando Ferrer de Lima, Brazilian fake priest
Gerhard Vilsmeier, German fake catholic priest
Henri Hebert, Baron de Richemont, false dauphin
Jack Bilbo or Hugo Baruch, fake gangster writer
Jack Livesey (fraud), UK fake veteran
Jean Marie Hervagault, dauphin pretender (d. May 8 1812)
Joyce Harro, fake pianist
Marco Tullio Catizone, impostor of Philip II of Spain
Massimiliano Mussi, who claimed to be an official organist for the Pope Benedict XVI
Maturin Bruneau or Mathurin Bruneau (d. April 28 1821)
Mehemet Mira Bey, fake Arab diplomat in the Louis XIV’s court
Nikolai Chebotaev, fake tsarevich
Omid Amidi-Mazaheri, US fake dentist
Paulus Tigrinus, impostor claiming to be wandering Patriarch of Constantinople who fooled Pope Boniface IX and Antipope Clement VII
Peter Bennet, Australian impostor
Pratachand, Indian historical impostor
Rasulu Olatoyosi, Fake Nigerian prince
Roberto Coppola, Italian fake priest
Rustam Dzhumaliyev, Russian impostor masquerading as an American, arrested 2007
Stephen Wilce, Australian fake scientist

See Also

List of International Organized Crime Entries
List of Criminal Law Online Journals
International criminal law: Organized Crime and Narcotics
International Criminal Law
List of Criminal Biographies (Gangs) Entries
List of International Organized Crime Entries
List of Legal Encyclopedias
List of international public law topics
List of Robberies, Heists and Capers Entries
List of Murders and Assassins
List of main cases in the Encyclopedia

Further Reading

Encyclopedia of Gangs, by Louis Kontos and David Brotherton
Encyclopedia of Western Gunfighters, by Bill O’Neal
The Encyclopedia of International Organized Crime, by Carlo Devito
The Encyclopedia of Robberies, Heists, and Capers, by Michael Newton