Serial Swindlers

With smooth talk and promises of massive business deals ‘The Phantom’ has conned people out of millions. We hear from his victims and 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.

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.

Achilleas Kallakis was known as one of the most audacious characters in the London property market. he managed to amass a £250 million fortune, repeatedly swindling some of Britain’s biggest banks.

Brian Goldie passes himself off as a qualified former advocate in the High Courts of Scotland. But he has no legal qualifications and instead is a convicted fraudster.

Michael Brown is a convicted fraudster from Scotland. Posing as a highly successful bond dealer, claiming connections with the royal family, Brown swindled around £36m out of his victims.

‘Lord’ Edward Davenport a.k.a. “Fast Eddie” is a property developer and convicted fraudster. He is said to have made £34.5 million through his various frauds, with as many as 51 victims.

Graham Briggs had his first taste of prison in 1995 when he was jailed for 14 months for stealing £55,000 from a London-based Japanese catering company. He then went on to commit a series of crimes.

Joseph Hikairo-Barlow convinced people around him that he was a Tahitian Prince with a massive fortune and connections to the British royal family. Little did they know that he was ripping them off.

David Nepia Carroll was in his teens when he started stealing from his nephew’s piggy bank to more than £30,000 from his grandmother. He has now been in and out of prison 41 times.

For 20 years John Keady has seduced women from across Britain and Europe to America. But to dismiss this man as a serial womanizer would be a mistake; he is a callous and vicious conman.

Selva Carmichael promised to make stars out of former Big Brother contestants and millionaires out of investors. However, the show was bogus and designed to convince investors to part with their cash.