Adventurer

Discover a world of daring adventurers who have pushed the boundaries of human exploration. From fearless explorers to renowned climbers, this curated list showcases the lives and achievements of iconic adventurers who have shaped our understanding of the world around us.

David (Race) Bannon

American scammer

Marina Mniszech

Political adventurer

Adelaide Abankwah

Ghanaian immigration scammer

American swindler

Alan Mcilwraith

Former call center employee in Scotland posing as a British officer

Aleksander Eskvemelin

British fraudster and impostor

The most talented robber of the twentieth century

Norwegian inventor and fraudster

Janet Lim-Napoles

Filipino businesswoman

Helga De la Brache

Swedish fraudster posing as secret royal daughter

19th century British commoner posing as a baronet

Andrey Mogilyanskiy

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

Johann Ernst Elias Bessler

Saxon mechanical engineer, physician and legendary adventurer-con man

Head of the encryption department of the USSR Embassy in Canada

American scammer

Michelle Anches

An impostor posing as Grand Duchess Tatyana Nikolaevna

Pirate, explorer of new lands

Alison Reynolds

English fraudster and swindler.

Friedrich Wilhelm Voigt

German shoemaker, ex-prisoner, swindler

Dmitriy Yakovlev

US convicted criminal, Russian immigrant

Dutch filibuster

Francois Olonnais

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

Former Fox News military consultant turned fraudster

American motivational speaker and former broker.

Ferdinand Waldo Demara

American scammer

Arnold Rotshtein

Professional player

French criminal who escaped from prison three times

American fraudster posing as Saudi Arabia's crown prince

American criminal convicted of fraud

Considered the founder of the Russian mafia in America

Frederic Bourdin

French impostor scammer

Frank Abagnale Jr.

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

English entrepreneur, purchasing agent, fraudster

Anna Eleonora Ekelof

Swedish scammer

Nikolaas van Hoor

Dutch pirate and slave trader

Bendzhamen Sgelbaum

The gangster whose name is associated with the birth of the gambling world - Las Vegas.

American fraudster, counterfeiter.

Gerald Barnbaum

Former pharmacist, fraudster

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

British scammer

Mary Baker-Willcocks

British woman, fraudster

Chinese entrepreneur.

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

Female pirate of Irish descent

Roche Brasiliano