Twenty-five years later, the BBC investigates its own reporter.

She fabricated harrowing personal backstories, peddled gross caricatures, and spoke from perspectives she had no right to claim. And nobody stopped her.

How a member of a breakaway Mormon sect teamed up with a Lambo-driving, hard-partying tycoon to bilk the government for hundreds of millions of dollars.

Shaun MacDonald was an ambitious tech innovator whose start-up was going to revolutionize the crypto economy. His wealthy investors had no idea that their charismatic founder was really Boaz Manor, a notorious Canadian white-collar criminal.

Over a decade, Theodore Robert Wright III destroyed cars, yachts, and planes. That was only the half of it.

A renowned scholar claimed that he discovered a first-century gospel fragment. Now he’s facing allegations of antiquities theft, cover-up, and fraud.

How Wall Street enabled a global financial scandal.

A young dealer goes on the lam after selling multiple masterpieces to several buyers simultaneously.

How Rebekah Neumann’s search For enlightenment fueled WeWork’s collapse.

Is the oldest person who ever lived a fraud?

Jared Johns found out too late that swapping messages with the pretty girl from a dating site would mean serious trouble. If only he had known who she really was.

The rise and stunning collapse of a cybersecurity firm.

Elizabeth Pierce impressed investors with hefty contracts for fiber—until they learned she was the only one who’d signed them.

The crowdfunded phone of the future was a multimillion-dollar scam

He was a Harvard Law professor who taught a class on judgment, which made him an unlikely target for an elaborate paternity scheme that nearly cost him his house and family.

Jeremy Wilson spent years crisscrossing the country and inventing new identities as a war hero, an MIT grad, a Hollywood journalist, and more.

Two Dominican families, their lawyer, and a quest for ancestral riches that may not exist.

California has more charter schools than any other state. But the way they’re overseen is flawed—and questionable operators are making millions.

George von Bothmer reported a violent home invasion by two men wielding guns and shouting death threats. Things only got weirder from there.

The story of $800 million hedge fund fraudster Boaz Manor who led the alleged $31 million Blockchain Terminal ICO after disguising his identity with a beard.

Jerome Jacobson and his network of mobsters, psychics, strip club owners, and drug traffickers won almost every prize for 12 years, until the FBI launched Operation ‘Final Answer.’

Jennifer Warren promised people counseling and recovery for free. When they arrived, she put them to work 16 hours a day for no pay at adult care homes for the elderly and disabled.

Following the fraudsters who use gods and myth to steal from the elderly.

It turns out “Madame Giselle” wasn’t any of these things, couldn’t make her Chevy Chase, Maryland, neighbors rich, and may have been at the center of a massive scandal in Colombia.

He was the most powerful fish broker in New Bedford, America’s most valuable seafood port. The Russians who arrived looking to buy his operation were undercover agents and he told them everything.