They thought that they’d found the perfect New York apartment. They weren’t alone.

How Washington society got scammed by one of its own.

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

The many lives of imposter Frédéric Bourdin.

A Texas con artist made millions promising prisoners’ families the thing they wanted most: to bring their children home.

What’s wrong with some forgery, fraud, and crystal meth if you’ll soon be gone? A better question: What the hell happens if you survive?

How pop-up tax preparers make billions off the poor.

A 23-year-old living in Chile was suddenly attacked and buried alive by her roommate. She later learned she wasn’t his first – or last – victim.

A Las Vegas hustler hits his lowest point.

For years he used fake identities to charm women out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Then his victims banded together to take him down.

When Clark Rockefeller snatched his daughter during a custody dispute, what the D.A. called “the longest con I’ve seen in my professional career” came unraveled, and the trail led to bones buried in a California backyard.

The story of a Pacific Palisades con man named Jeffrey Lash.

The fake cops of Santa Monica.

One of the most valuable cars in the world crashes going 200 mph on the Pacific Coast Highway. Its owner claims to be an anti-terrorism officer. In fact, he’s a former executive at a failed software company—and a career criminal. The unraveling of an epic con.

James Regan swindled his way through the city’s monied classes. The problem was, he seemed to believe his own lies.

Did a school for spies get conned by a fake spook who molested students?

Donors all over America opened their wallets for his United States Navy Veterans Association. Politicians all over Washington posed for grip-and-grins with him. But not only was he not a legitimate fundraiser for military families—he wasn’t even Bobby Charles Thompson.

Alan Young has been running the same scam for years: posing as a member of The Temptations and smooth-talking his way into luxury hotel rooms and prostitutes. Despite his clear charm, he admits he has “no skills other than being a con man.”

How a card-counting former meteorologist from Las Vegas made the first perfect Showcase bid in the 38-year history of The Price Is Right.

A trip to Râmnicu Vâlcea, a town of 120,000 where the primary (and lucrative) industry is Internet scams.

Henry Heimlich saved untold choking victimes when he invented his maneuver in 1974. Since then, he’s searched in vain for another miracle treatment—pushing ethical boundaries along the way. Now at the end of his career, Heimlich has hired an investigator to find an anonymous critic working full-time to destroy his legacy.

Alben Sagan got his name from the U.S. Marshals. Then he got a fortune from a woman he’d only known for a few years.

With Just Mayo, Josh Tetrick wanted to build the first sustainable-food unicorn. He’ll need to fend off the feds first.

When the music was real, but the bands were fake.