On the grifter who made a living forging the signatures of American heroes.

The intertwined lives of an Oregon rancher and a Indiana fraudster.

The con man who cost Google $500 million.

On a cruise with Syvlia Browne, the controversial psychic famous for telling distraught parents where their missing children are.

The gamblers and teenage cons who haunted New York City’s 60s-era all night bowling alleys.

At various points, Thomas Mitchell was a novelist, an attorney, a scientist, a Hollywood dealmaker and a CIA higher-up. He was also a con man.

A jailhouse interview with Steve Washak, who made millions selling “natural male enhancement” pills.

The rise and fall of Lisette Lee, the self-proclaimed “Korean Paris Hilton,” who was busted for drug trafficking.

Darren Lumar lived in mansions he didn’t own, ran companies that didn’t make a dime, went to colleges that didn’t exist and slept with “any number of women” despite being married to James Brown’s daughter. When he was murdered, the cops had a problem: too many possible suspects.

Adam Wheeler lied on his college application. Lawrence Summers facilitated the destruction of the global economy.

Only one of these Harvard men was given jail time.

The story of a Ponzi schemer who became the mark.

How the author became tangled up with an international con man who may or may not have murdered several people.

John MacNeil was convicted by the state of Massachusetts of second-degree murder. He was given a life sentence. He escaped. He was caught. Through an incredible feat of jailhouse lawyering, he somehow got himself paroled and exiled to Canada. Then he came home.

A 21-year-old’s audacious real estate scam and subsequent escape.

How a convicted sexual predator emptied the bank accounts and ruined the lives of several women from behind bars.

The world of high-end wine gets conned.

He has worked for Apple, Google, AOL, the Rainbow Room. He hangs out with Steve Case, Gordon Ramsey, Tim Armstrong. He's a world-class surfer, a AAA baseball legend, the founder of a seminal punk band. He's one of the more persistent and obsessive grifters to ply the streets of New York City—not to mention online dating sites—in recent decades.

How the U.S. government used a serial con who was caught running a mail-order steroid pharmacy in Mexico to prove that Google was knowingly placing ads for illegal drugs.

Con man turned pastor turned con man; a profile of a serial scammer and the movie he tried to make about himself.

How the town of Moberly, population 14,000, got conned.

A charismatic entrepreneur, an ex-con turned devout Christian, and the politicians who championed them.

The story of a $36 billion Ponzi scheme in Minnesota.

How an Italian thug looted MGM, brought Credit Lyonnais to its knees, and made the Pope cry.

She was the biggest tipper the waiters at some of the country’s most gourmet restaurants had ever seen. She treated casual acquaintances to elaborate vacations. Few saw the tiny bungalow where she lived amongst hundreds of boxes of unopened jewelry, and none knew the source of her wealth. When her multi-decade embezzlement scheme was revealed, the artisans and waitstaff whose lives had been changed by her generosity were left to sort out the pieces and consider their own relationship to her scam.

On William H. McMasters, who ten days after being hired as Charles Ponzi’s publicist wrote a scathing exposé in The Boston Post that revealed the biggest fraud, at the time, in American history.