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Great frauds in history: Walter Forbes
Features Walter Forbes manipulated his company earnings created $500m of fictitious profits and ended up wiping $14bn from the value of his company's share and bonds.
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Great frauds in history: George Hudson
Features George Hudson, known as the "Railway King", stung his victims with a double-edged fraud – embezzlement and false accounting.
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Great frauds in history: Louis Jay Pearlman
Features Louis Jay Pearlman conned £300m out of his victims, among them boy bands the Backstreet Boys and ‘N Sync.
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Great frauds in history: Jabez Spencer Balfour
Features Jabez Spencer Balfour built the largest building society in the land and swindled its depositors out of millions.
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Great frauds in history: Sarah Howe
Features Sarah Howe defrauded thousands of women through her "Ladies’ Deposit Company" in the late 19th century.
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Great frauds in history: Clarence Hatry
Features Clarence Hatry started out as an insurance clerk, but the fraud he perpetrated rattled markets across the globe.
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Great frauds in history: Horatio Bottomley
Features Horatio Bottomley – twice elected to Parliament and once considered for a cabinet post – was also a swindler and an embezzler.
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Great frauds in history: Stanley Goldblum
Tutorials Stanley Goldblum's insurance fraud cost investors $300m and reinsurance companies $1.8bn
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Great frauds in history: Cortes Randell
Features Everything was going well for Cortes Randell until US investment magazine Barron's starting probing.
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