A dissection of the dark side of the American Dream, a survey of how far some people go to become rich, no matter the cost to themselves and those around them. Real-life cases are reviewed and involve such criminal activity as credit card scams, identity theft, counterfeiting and Ponzi schemes.
Title | Air Date | Duration | ||
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Season 1 | Episode 1 | Hook, Line and Sucker / Maxfield Parish Art Heist | 2007-06-21 | 60 min |
Season 1 | Episode 2 | The Imposter: Dr. Barnes / Interstate Bank Mart Bandit | 2007-06-28 | 60 min |
Season 1 | Episode 3 | Art Heist: Fine Arts Express / Medical Scams: Dr. Martinez | 2007-07-05 | 60 min |
Season 1 | Episode 4 | Meth Identity Thieves / The Wheaton Bandit | 2007-07-12 | 60 min |
Season 1 | Episode 5 | Religious Prey: Baptist Foundation of Arizona / Medical Scams: Dr. Mikos | 2007-07-19 | 60 min |
Season 1 | Episode 6 | Religious Prey: Greater Ministries Int'l / It Takes a Thief | 2007-07-26 | 60 min |
Season 2 | Episode 1 | The Martin Frankel Case | 2008-01-30 | 60 min |
Season 2 | Episode 2 | When Greed and Giving Collide / Confessions of a Con Man | 2008-02-06 | 60 min |
Season 2 | Episode 3 | Unsolved: $300 Million Art Heist / Preying on Faith | 2008-02-13 | 60 min |
Season 2 | Episode 4 | Stealing $$$ from Scientologists / The Art of Fraud | 2008-02-20 | 60 min |
Season 2 | Episode 5 | Deadly RX for Greed | 2008-02-27 | 60 min |
Season 2 | Episode 6 | Inside the WorldCom Scam / DHS: Department of Hollywood Scams | 2008-03-05 | 60 min |
Season 2 | Episode 7 | Fraud in Cyberspace | 2008-03-12 | 60 min |
Season 2 | Episode 8 | Party's Over: Tyco's Kozlowski | 2008-03-19 | 60 min |
Season 2 | Episode 9 | Driven by Greed / Conned in the Caribbean | 2008-03-26 | 60 min |
Season 2 | Episode 10 | Robbing Hollywood's A-List / Soaking the Rich at Auction | 2008-03-30 | 60 min |
Season 3 | Episode 1 | The Bonnie and Clyde of Mortgage Fraud | 2009-01-07 | 60 min |
Season 3 | Episode 2 | Boy Band Mogul | 2009-01-14 | 60 min |
Season 3 | Episode 3 | A Wall Street Wonder Takes a Fall | 2009-01-21 | 60 min |
Season 3 | Episode 4 | Two Brothers, Two Murders | 2009-01-28 | 60 min |
Season 3 | Episode 5 | Skin Doctor Takes His Cut / Revolutionary Guru of Greed | 2009-02-04 | 60 min |
Season 3 | Episode 6 | A Scam Exposed: Strippers and Insider Trading / Economan: Superthief | 2009-02-11 | 60 min |
Season 3 | Episode 7 | The Mustang Ranch: Money, Women and Murder | 2009-02-18 | 60 min |
Season 3 | Episode 8 | The Body Snatcher | 2009-02-25 | 60 min |
Season 4 | Episode 1 | Suicide is Painless: Sam Israel III | 2010-02-03 | 60 min |
Season 4 | Episode 2 | The Black Widows: Helen Golay and Olga Rutterschmidt | 2010-02-10 | 60 min |
Season 4 | Episode 3 | Raffaello Follieri | 2010-03-10 | 60 min |
Season 4 | Episode 4 | The Mad Max of Wall Street | 2010-03-10 | 60 min |
Season 4 | Episode 5 | Crash and Burn | 2010-03-17 | 60 min |
Season 4 | Episode 6 | Sholam Weiss | 2010-03-24 | 60 min |
Season 4 | Episode 7 | Funny Money | 2010-03-31 | 60 min |
Season 4 | Episode 8 | Flipping Frenzy Scam | 2010-04-07 | 60 min |
Season 4 | Episode 9 | Sexual Performance Pill / Kirk Wright | 2010-04-14 | 60 min |
Season 4 | Episode 10 | Kentucky Fen-Phen Attorneys | 2010-04-21 | 60 min |
Season 4 | Episode 11 | Dr. Stokes / C & D Distributors | 2010-04-28 | 60 min |
Season 4 | Episode 12 | Computer Hacker Masterminds | 2010-05-05 | 60 min |
Season 5 | Episode 1 | Bank Robbing Broker | 2011-01-19 | 60 min |
Season 5 | Episode 2 | Financial Guru Gone Bad | 2011-01-26 | 60 min |
Season 5 | Episode 3 | Fool's Gold | 2011-02-02 | 60 min |
Season 5 | Episode 4 | Hackers: Operation Get Rich or Die Tryin' | 2011-02-09 | 60 min |
Season 5 | Episode 5 | A More Generous Criminal | 2011-02-16 | 60 min |
Season 5 | Episode 6 | $1.2 Billion Scam: Ft. Frauderdale | 2011-02-23 | 60 min |
Season 5 | Episode 7 | The Bling Ring / The Fraudster / The Ex-Stripper and the Missing Millions | 2011-03-09 | 60 min |
Season 5 | Episode 8 | Fraudster of the Opera / Frozen Assets - The Ice Capers | 2011-03-16 | 60 min |
Season 5 | Episode 9 | The Slaughterhouse | 2011-03-23 | 60 min |
Season 5 | Episode 10 | The Royal Scam: Kings of Counterfeit | 2011-03-30 | 60 min |
Season 5 | Episode 11 | The Art of the Steal / The Folsom Felon | 2011-04-06 | 60 min |
Season 5 | Episode 12 | Hedge Fund Imposter | 2011-04-13 | 60 min |
Season 5 | Episode 13 | The Wizard of Sarasota | 2011-04-20 | 60 min |
Season 5 | Episode 14 | Mark Weinberger: Nose No Bounds | 2011-04-27 | 60 min |
Season 6 | Episode 1 | Celebrity Scam Artist | 2012-01-25 | 60 min |
Season 6 | Episode 2 | Master of Deadly Deceit | 2012-02-01 | 60 min |
Season 6 | Episode 3 | Major League Fraud | 2012-02-08 | 60 min |
Season 6 | Episode 4 | Baby Broker Scam | 2012-02-15 | 60 min |
Season 6 | Episode 5 | Tom Petters Generous with Other Peoples Money | 2012-02-22 | 60 min |
Season 6 | Episode 6 | Galleon Group: The Insider - Raj Rajaratnam | 2012-02-29 | 60 min |
Season 6 | Episode 7 | Fine Art: Portrait of a Fraud | 2012-03-14 | 60 min |
Season 6 | Episode 8 | Loan Scam Money for Nothing | 2012-03-21 | 60 min |
Season 6 | Episode 9 | William Erpenbeck Real Estate Home Wrecker | 2012-04-04 | 60 min |
Season 6 | Episode 10 | Nicholas Cosmo: All Interest, No Return | 2012-05-02 | 60 min |
Season 6 | Episode 11 | Michael Lock Pimp Preachers Profiteer | 2012-05-09 | 60 min |
Season 6 | Episode 12 | The Tran Organization: Blackjack Cheaters | 2012-05-30 | 60 min |
Season 6 | Episode 13 | The Mormon Madoff | 2012-06-20 | 60 min |
Season 6 | Episode 14 | Crash for Cash | 2012-06-27 | 60 min |
Season 6 | Episode 15 | Financial Home Invasion | 2012-07-11 | 60 min |
Season 6 | Episode 16 | The Jersey Score | 2012-07-25 | 60 min |
Season 6 | Episode 17 | Allen Stanford: The Dark Knight | 2012-08-01 | 60 min |
Season 7 | Episode 1 | Shipwrecked | 2013-02-22 | 60 min |
Season 7 | Episode 2 | The Wealth Builder Club | 2013-02-28 | 60 min |
Season 7 | Episode 3 | The Prisoner of Wall Street | 2013-03-04 | 60 min |
Season 7 | Episode 4 | Deadly Payout | 2013-03-11 | 60 min |
Season 7 | Episode 5 | Wild West Rip-Off | 2013-04-01 | 60 min |
Season 7 | Episode 6 | Union Bu$ter / The Fool's Gold | 2013-04-10 | 60 min |
Season 7 | Episode 7 | Windy City Wipeout / Miami Burn | 2013-04-16 | 60 min |
Season 7 | Episode 8 | Dealing in Deceit | 2013-04-15 | 60 min |
Season 7 | Episode 9 | Talk Radio Takedown | 2013-05-21 | 60 min |
Season 7 | Episode 10 | Brooklyn's Madoff / Corrupted Software | 2013-05-29 | 60 min |
Season 7 | Episode 11 | Greedy Groovy Guru / Doomsday Profit | 2013-06-14 | 60 min |
Season 7 | Episode 12 | The Lady Killer | 2013-07-18 | 60 min |
Season 7 | Episode 13 | Rapper$ Delight / Grapes of Greed | 2013-07-31 | 60 min |
Season 8 | Episode 1 | Murder in Memphis | 2014-03-19 | 60 min |
Season 8 | Episode 2 | Young Lust Gone Bust | 2014-03-26 | 60 min |
Season 8 | Episode 3 | The Cunning Cowgirl Crook / Dollars for Dumps | 2014-04-02 | 60 min |
Season 8 | Episode 4 | Sudden Death / Hip Hop Hustle | 2014-04-09 | 60 min |
Season 8 | Episode 5 | Make Me Rich or Die / Kids for Cash | 2014-04-16 | 60 min |
Season 8 | Episode 6 | Detroit 'Crime Boss' Mayor | 2014-04-30 | 60 min |
Season 8 | Episode 7 | The Falcon and the Con Man | 2014-04-30 | 60 min |
Season 8 | Episode 8 | Extreme Home Ripoffs / Greedings from Florida | 2014-06-18 | 60 min |
Season 8 | Episode 9 | Insider Trading Trio / Cocaine Cash Cleaner | 2014-06-25 | 60 min |
Season 8 | Episode 10 | Lights! Camera! Fraud! | 2014-07-16 | 60 min |
Season 8 | Episode 11 | The Car Con | 2014-07-23 | 60 min |
Season 8 | Episode 12 | A Wolf in Priest's Clothing | 2014-07-30 | 60 min |
Season 8 | Episode 13 | The Home Invaders / Nashville's Predator | 2014-08-06 | 60 min |
Season 8 | Episode 14 | Hail to the Thief | 2014-08-13 | 60 min |
Season 9 | Episode 1 | A Con Man's Deadly Revenge | 2015-01-15 | 60 min |
Season 9 | Episode 2 | The Playboy of Indiana | 2015-01-22 | 60 min |
Season 9 | Episode 3 | Ea$y Being Green / Burglar to the Stars | 2015-01-29 | 60 min |
Season 9 | Episode 4 | A Widow's Web | 2015-02-05 | 60 min |
Season 9 | Episode 5 | The Cash King | 2015-02-12 | 60 min |
Season 9 | Episode 6 | The Dirtiest Con | 2015-02-19 | 60 min |
Season 9 | Episode 7 | Charity Begins at Home | 2015-02-26 | 60 min |
Season 9 | Episode 8 | The Real Wolf of Wall Street | 2015-03-05 | 60 min |
Season 9 | Episode 9 | Kevin Trudeau's Secrets / Remington Steal | 2015-07-10 | 60 min |
Season 9 | Episode 10 | Fake It to Make It / Kill the Witnesses | 2015-07-17 | 60 min |
Season 9 | Episode 11 | "Vintage" Wine Fraud | 2015-07-24 | 60 min |
Season 9 | Episode 12 | In Harm's Way | 2015-07-31 | 60 min |
Season 9 | Episode 13 | The Lawyer Lies / Black Gold Bust | 2015-10-16 | 60 min |
Season 9 | Episode 14 | Friends Without Benefits | 2015-10-23 | 60 min |
Season 9 | Episode 15 | The Spy Who Scammed Me | 2015-10-30 | 60 min |
Season 9 | Episode 16 | The Sky's the Limit | 2015-11-06 | 60 min |
Season 10 | Episode 1 | Ray Nagin: New Orleans Shakedown | 2016-03-31 | 60 min |
Season 10 | Episode 2 | The Surfer Slayer? | 2016-04-07 | 60 min |
Season 10 | Episode 3 | A Mother's Costly Revenge | 2016-04-14 | 60 min |
Season 10 | Episode 4 | Vanity and Greed: Deadly Beauty | 2016-04-28 | 60 min |
Season 10 | Episode 5 | Psychic Fiend's Network | 2016-05-12 | 60 min |
Season 10 | Episode 6 | The Bar Girls Trap | 2016-05-19 | 60 min |
Season 10 | Episode 7 | Sick Profits / Hollywood Swinging | 2016-05-26 | 60 min |
Season 10 | Episode 8 | Capturing the Fugitives | 2016-06-09 | 60 min |
Season 10 | Episode 9 | Six Feet Plunder | 2016-06-23 | 60 min |
Season 10 | Episode 10 | Jersey Car Stealer Dealer / Facebook Face-Off | 2016-06-30 | 60 min |
Season 10 | Episode 11 | Pain Killer Profits | 2016-07-07 | 60 min |
Season 10 | Episode 12 | Jamaican Lottery Scam | 2016-07-14 | 60 min |
Season 10 | Episode 13 | The Bad Neighbors | 2016-08-04 | 60 min |
Season 10 | Episode 14 | The Phantom Fraudster of Broadway | 2016-08-11 | 60 min |
Season 10 | Episode 15 | Medical Gloves with Holes | 2016-08-18 | 60 min |
Season 10 | Episode 16 | Hack Me If You Can / Goodfella Gone Bad | 2016-08-25 | 60 min |
Season 10 | Episode 17 | Seattle Roasted / The Stealing Socialite | 2016-09-08 | 60 min |
Season 10 | Episode 18 | Diagnosis: Blood Money / Chicago Jailbrake | 2016-09-15 | 60 min |
Season 10 | Episode 19 | Family Fortune Feud | 2016-09-22 | 60 min |
Season 10 | Episode 20 | Silk Road: Digital Drug Dealers | 2016-09-29 | 60 min |
Season 11 | Episode 1 | Deadly Gold Digger | 2017-01-23 | 60 min |
Season 11 | Episode 2 | The Real "War Dogs" | 2017-01-30 | 60 min |
Season 11 | Episode 3 | Badge of Dishonor | 2017-02-06 | 60 min |
Season 11 | Episode 4 | Billionaire Boys Bust | 2017-02-13 | 60 min |
Season 11 | Episode 5 | Clean Teeth, Dirty Money / Comic Book Murder | 2017-02-27 | 60 min |
Season 11 | Episode 6 | Sticky Fingers / Life in the Fraud Lane | 2017-03-06 | 60 min |
Season 11 | Episode 7 | Making a Killing / Doctor Drug Dealer | 2017-03-13 | 60 min |
Season 11 | Episode 8 | Fouled Out / Rumeal Robinson | 2017-03-20 | 60 min |
Season 11 | Episode 9 | Recipe for Murder | 2017-06-19 | 60 min |
Season 11 | Episode 10 | Junk in a Box / Been Caught Stealing | 2017-06-26 | 60 min |
Season 11 | Episode 11 | From Peanuts to Sick Millions | 2017-07-03 | 60 min |
Season 11 | Episode 12 | A Glamorous Showbiz Lie | 2017-07-10 | 60 min |
Season 11 | Episode 13 | Deadly Black Gold Riches | 2017-07-17 | 60 min |
Season 11 | Episode 14 | Art Schlichter: All-American Fraud | 2017-07-24 | 60 min |
Season 11 | Episode 15 | Red Carpet Rip-Off | 2017-07-31 | 60 min |
Season 11 | Episode 16 | Wine, Women and Fraud | 2017-08-07 | 60 min |
Season 11 | Episode 17 | Neighborhood Inferno | 2017-08-14 | 60 min |
Season 11 | Episode 18 | Fraud Collectors | 2017-08-21 | 60 min |
Season 11 | Episode 19 | Lesson in Greed/Soldier Scam | 2017-08-28 | 60 min |
Season 11 | Episode 20 | Top Gun of Fraud | 2017-09-04 | 60 min |
Season 12 | Episode 1 | The Most Hated Man in America | 2018-02-26 | 60 min |
Season 12 | Episode 2 | Deadly Opioids, Dirty Doctors | 2018-03-05 | 60 min |
Season 12 | Episode 3 | Murderous Plot Meets Reality TV | 2018-03-12 | 60 min |
Season 12 | Episode 4 | The Polka King Con | 2018-03-19 | 60 min |
Season 12 | Episode 5 | Stolen Valor Scam | 2018-03-26 | 60 min |
Season 12 | Episode 6 | Conn's Job | 2018-04-02 | 60 min |
Season 12 | Episode 7 | Blood Relatives / End of Life Scam | 2018-04-09 | 60 min |
Season 12 | Episode 8 | Dangerous Luxury | 2018-06-18 | 60 min |
Season 12 | Episode 9 | Billion Dollar Fraud Goes Viral | 2018-06-25 | 60 min |
Season 12 | Episode 10 | Florida Rehab Gone Wild | 2018-07-02 | 60 min |
Season 12 | Episode 11 | Operation Crook, Line and Stinker | 2018-08-13 | 60 min |
Season 12 | Episode 12 | Artistic License to Steal | 2018-08-20 | 60 min |
Season 12 | Episode 13 | The Fake Housewife of Orange County | 2018-08-27 | 60 min |
Season 12 | Episode 14 | Online Dating Trap | 2018-09-03 | 60 min |
Season 12 | Episode 15 | An Ungodly Scammer | 2018-09-10 | 60 min |
Season 12 | Episode 16 | Just a Dollar and a Scheme / Lousy Landlord | 2018-09-17 | 60 min |
Season 12 | Episode 17 | Something's Fishy: The Codfather | 2018-09-24 | 60 min |
Season 12 | Episode 18 | Scams on Film / God and Gold | 2018-10-01 | 60 min |
Season 12 | Episode 19 | Baby-Faced Drug Lords | 2018-10-08 | 60 min |
Season 12 | Episode 20 | From Bouncer to Millionaire Fraudster | 2018-10-22 | 120 min |
Season 13 | Episode 1 | The College Admissions Scandal | 2019-08-12 | 60 min |
Season 13 | Episode 2 | The Fyre Festival | 2019-08-19 | 60 min |
Season 13 | Episode 3 | Paul Manafort | 2019-08-26 | 60 min |
Season 13 | Episode 4 | Prophets of Greed | 2019-09-02 | 60 min |
Season 13 | Episode 5 | Black Market Dirty Gold | 2019-09-09 | 60 min |
Season 13 | Episode 6 | The House Flipping Reality Star Fraudster | 2019-09-16 | 60 min |
Season 13 | Episode 7 | The Fake Prince's Royal Scam | 2020-01-06 | 60 min |
Season 13 | Episode 8 | Diagnosis: Temptress Health Scam | 2020-01-13 | 60 min |
Season 13 | Episode 9 | The Fast and the Fraudulent | 2020-01-20 | 60 min |
Season 13 | Episode 10 | Painful Greed Turns Deadly | 2020-01-27 | 60 min |
Season 13 | Episode 11 | Starstruck Studio Swindle | 2020-02-03 | 60 min |
Season 13 | Episode 12 | The Luxury Curse Scam | 2020-02-10 | 60 min |
Season 13 | Episode 13 | Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino | 2020-02-17 | 60 min |
Season 13 | Episode 14 | Fake Heiress Cons High Society | 2020-02-24 | 60 min |
Season 13 | Episode 15 | All-Star Sports Scam | 2020-03-02 | 60 min |
Season 13 | Episode 16 | Judgment of Terror | 2020-03-09 | 60 min |
Season 14 | Episode 1 | The Trials of Michael Avenatti | 2021-01-18 | 60 min |
Season 14 | Episode 2 | Nightmare at NXIVM | 2021-01-25 | 60 min |
Season 14 | Episode 3 | The Real Dr. Death | 2021-02-01 | 60 min |
Season 14 | Episode 4 | The Fall of an Opioid Mogul | 2021-02-08 | 60 min |
Season 14 | Episode 5 | A Family Vanishes | 2021-02-15 | 60 min |
Season 14 | Episode 6 | Social Media Scam Artists | 2021-02-22 | 60 min |
Season 14 | Episode 7 | Inside El Chapo's Empire | 2021-06-07 | 60 min |
Season 14 | Episode 8 | The 'Con' In Congress | 2021-06-14 | 60 min |
Season 14 | Episode 9 | Confessions of a Scam Artist | 2021-06-21 | 60 min |
Season 14 | Episode 10 | The Imposter | 2021-06-28 | 60 min |
Season 14 | Episode 11 | Burned By Greed | 2021-07-05 | 60 min |
Season 14 | Episode 12 | A Father's Fraud | 2021-07-12 | 60 min |
Season 15 | Episode 1 | The Life & Crimes of Joel Greenberg | 2022-01-05 | 60 min |
Season 15 | Episode 2 | Theranos CEO on Trial | 2022-01-12 | 60 min |
Season 15 | Episode 3 | How WeWork Went Wild | 2022-01-19 | 60 min |
Season 15 | Episode 4 | Boeing's Deadly Design | 2022-01-26 | 60 min |
Season 15 | Episode 5 | The Biggest Theft of All Time? | 2022-02-02 | 60 min |
Season 15 | Episode 6 | The Kingpin Next Door | 2022-02-02 | 60 min |
Season 15 | Episode 7 | The Polygamist & The Bio Fuel Baron | 2022-09-27 | 60 min |
Season 15 | Episode 8 | Chasing Tesla | 2022-10-04 | 60 min |
Season 15 | Episode 9 | COVID Cons | 2022-10-11 | 60 min |
Season 15 | Episode 10 | The Accused Crypto Couple | 2022-10-18 | 60 min |
Season 15 | Episode 11 | Financial Infidelity | 2022-10-25 | 60 min |
Season 15 | Episode 12 | The Spy Who Conned Me | 2022-11-01 | 60 min |
Season 15 | Episode 13 | Million Dollar Prison Kickback | 2022-11-15 | 60 min |
Season 15 | Episode 14 | California Schemin' | 2022-11-22 | 60 min |
Season 15 | Episode 15 | Streaming and Scheming | 2022-11-29 | 60 min |
Season 15 | Episode 16 | The Decline of a Dynasty | 2022-12-06 | 60 min |
Season 15 | Episode 17 | A Legacy of Fraud | 2022-12-13 | 60 min |
Season 15 | Episode 18 | The Busted Mogul | 2022-12-20 | 60 min |
Season 15 | Episode 19 | Follow the Juul Money | 2023-01-24 | 60 min |
Season 15 | Episode 20 | VIP Schemers | 2023-01-31 | 60 min |
Season 15 | Episode 21 | Preaching Pyramid Schemes | 2023-02-14 | 60 min |
Season 15 | Episode 22 | Drunk with Power | 2023-02-21 | 60 min |
Season 15 | Episode 23 | Fame, Fortune & Fraud | 2023-02-28 | 60 min |
Season 15 | Episode 24 | Lawyers, Lies, And A Housewife | 2023-03-07 | 60 min |