Serial Swindlers

Calling himself 'the Phantom', Michaels is a brazen and deluded swindler. His elaborate lies and deceptions began when he was courting his wife, with Michaels telling her he was the son of a millionaire cruise line owner and was about to inherit a fortune. That never happened, and continued to con millions out of his victims. We also hear from the private investigator that helped expose him.

David Ocean is a serial con artist, who has played many 'catch me if you can' roles, from lothario to surgeon, leaving a trail of heartache and destruction in his wake. we hear from the police officer who has tracked Ocean over the years, two lawyers who represented him, and even a British backpacker who sailed with him and later had his identity stolen by Ocean.

Giovanni di Stefano attracted the attention of many criminals who were willing to pay hundreds of thousands of pounds for a chance at a reduced sentence. But in fact, he had no legal qualifications.

Nicknamed the "King of Gamblers", Chia's story begins with a seemingly modest family man living out a double life of flash cars, and international casinos. Eventually going on to steal $117 million from four foreign banks. His case rocked Singapore not just for the vast amount of money he stole, but because it exposed the dark truth of what an obsession with gambling will lead a man to do.

Achilleas Kallakis was known as one of the most audacious characters in the London property market. Born into a modest family of Merseyside ship workers, he managed to amass a 250 pounds million fortune, repeatedly swindling some of Britain's biggest banks. In 2012 he was exposed and sentenced to 11 years in prison.

Brian Goldie is a Scotsman with a dramatic past and a taste for international travel. At this very moment, Goldie is passing himself off in Thailand as a qualified former advocate in the High Courts of Scotland. But he has no legal qualifications and instead is a convicted fraudster, who continues that take money from unsuspecting expats.