Adventurer

Adventurer: biographies of notable people, their careers, life stories, key achievements and influence on culture, history and society.

Alan Mcilwraith

Former call center employee in Scotland posing as a British officer

American woman who stole a police car

Pirate, explorer of new lands

Ferdinand Waldo Demara

American scammer

American fraudster posing as Saudi Arabia's crown prince

Michelle Anches

An impostor posing as Grand Duchess Tatyana Nikolaevna

Roberto Cofresi

The most famous pirate in Puerto Rico

Aleksander Eskvemelin

Frank Abagnale Jr.

American expert in the field of document security, best known for his daring crimes committed back in the 1960s.

Robert Culliford

Considered the founder of the Russian mafia in America

The most talented robber of the twentieth century

English entrepreneur, purchasing agent, fraudster

British scammer

French criminal who escaped from prison three times

Frederic Bourdin

French impostor scammer

French military man and mercenary, participant in a number of armed conflicts in Africa and Asia.

British fraudster and impostor

Founder of the Japanese sect "Aum Shinrikyo"

Gerald Barnbaum

Former pharmacist, fraudster

Friedrich Wilhelm Voigt

German shoemaker, ex-prisoner, swindler

Roche Brasiliano

Nikolaas van Hoor

Dutch pirate and slave trader

Dmitriy Yakovlev

US convicted criminal, Russian immigrant

Cassie Chadwick

Canadian scammer

Johann Ernst Elias Bessler

Saxon mechanical engineer, physician and legendary adventurer-con man

19th century British commoner posing as a baronet

An American, a key defendant in a high-profile case of fraud in the adoption of children.

American criminal convicted of fraud

Former Fox News military consultant turned fraudster

Adelaide Abankwah

Ghanaian immigration scammer

Andrey Mogilyanskiy

A businessman was arrested on charges of so-called sex tourism.

Homeless ex-Marine who scammed over $400,000

Dutch filibuster

Tracy and Karen Vasseur

Internet scammers

Janet Lim-Napoles

Filipino businesswoman

American motivational speaker and former broker.

Female pirate of Irish descent

Francois Olonnais

French filibuster who traded in the Caribbean in the mid-17th century

Dutch filibuster

American fraudster, counterfeiter.

Alessandro Kaliostro

(Giuseppe Balsamo) count, charlatan and adventurer

Helga De la Brache

Swedish fraudster posing as secret royal daughter

Norwegian inventor and fraudster

Mary Baker-Willcocks

British woman, fraudster

David (Race) Bannon

American scammer