Average (15 minutes – 1 hour)
Lupin
| Netflix | Inspired by the adventures of Arsène Lupin, gentleman thief Assane Diop sets out to avenge his father for an injustice inflicted by a wealthy family.
How London became the dirty money capital of the world
| Financial Times | Russian oligarchs and companies have been investing in London for two decades, encouraged by British politicians of all stripes, but critics say the ‘London laundromat’ cleans dirty money from Russia and across the globe. The FT…
The Multilevel Marketing Cults: Lies, Pyramid Schemes, and the Pursuit of Financial Freedom
| James Jani | These companies follow a Multi-Level Marketing model, that means they often do not sell their products/services via retailers, but through a workforce of people sometimes called their “distributors”. This strategy is also often labelled as Network…
Enron – The Biggest Fraud in History
| ColdFusion| In this video, ColdFusion will take you into the story of one of the biggest frauds in history, Enron, where over 60 billion dollars were scammed. The Enron scandal was a series of events that culminated in the…
- 2019
- Business ethics, Financial fraud, Scam
The story of a German Conman
| DW | It was one of the biggest white-collar scams in German history. In the 1990s, Manfred Schmider and his company FlowTex took investors for more than two billion euros. Today, the conman himself can’t believe how easy it…
- 2020
- Financial fraud, Scam
VW and dieselgate – What really happened
| DW Documentary | It’s a case involving one of the worst examples of fraud in the history of German industry. Who knew about the manipulation of VW’s diesel emissions, and just as importantly – when? In September 2015 US…
- 2022
- Business ethics
Theranos – Silicon Valley’s Greatest Disaster
| ColdFusion | Theranos, what seemed like one of the most ground breaking companies of the 21st century ended up being one of Silicon Valley’s greatest failures. How did Elizabeth Holmes manage to fool the world? In this video we…
- 2019
- Science fraud
Congo’s Missing Millions
| BBC | Unlocking secrets from Africa’s biggest banking data leak, BBC Africa Eye reveals how millions of dollars of public funds ended up in the private bank accounts of businesses based in Democratic Republic of Congo and owned by…
- 2021
- Business ethics, Corruption
How The Biggest Banks Get Away With Fraud
| ColdFusion | The mechanics of the fraud: how leveraged / inverse ETPs are constructed mathematically to defraud investors, many of which may not even know these are in their accounts. An extreme number of reverse splits…. why would the…
- 2021
- Financial fraud
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How to Lie Your Way to $34 Billion [Nikola Motors Fraud]
| ColdFusion | Trevor Milton took the phrase “fake it till you make it” to the extreme. Let’s take a look at the wild story of Nikola Motors. I’ve been sitting on this script idea for a year, so here…
- 2021
- Scam