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Great frauds in history: Harry Marks and his dodgy tips
Features Harry Marks used his position as the owner of a financial newspaper to con investors into putting their savings into a non-existent gold mine.
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Great frauds in history: Tsuyoshi Kikukawa and Olympus
Features Tsuyoshi Kikukawa who served as managing director, president and chairman of Japanese camera maker Olympus, hid $1.7bn of losses in the firm.
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Great frauds in history: Robert Brennan’s boiler room
Features Robert Brennan used high-pressure techniques to sell worthless penny shares to unwitting investors, defrauding them of more than $300m.
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Great frauds in history: John Sadleir
Features John Sadleir’s multiple deceptions destroyed the Tipperary Joint Stock Bank, ruining its shareholders and forcing many into bankruptcy.
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Great frauds in history: Ernest Terah Hooley
Features Ernest Terah Hooley employed every trick in the book to get the public to buy shares in his firms at inflated prices.
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Great frauds in history: Hannu Kailajärvi
Features Kailajärvi claimed to have discovered a way to make huge returns from foreign-currency trading. For a fee, investors could join the club.
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Great frauds in history: Marc Dreier
Features Investors who trusted their money to ex-lawyer Marc Dreier found themselves $400m out of pocket.
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Great frauds in history: Jordan Belfort and Stratton Oakmont
Features Jordan Belfort followed the traditional “boiler room” model of using high-pressure sales techniques to sell shares in dubious companies to investors.
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Great frauds in history: Adelheid Luise Spitzeder
Features Adelheid Luise Spitzeder operated a classic Ponzi scheme in the 19th century, and conned 32,000 people out of £152m
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