People convicted of fraud

Kjell Gunnar Finstad (born 4 October 1939) is a Norwegian businessman and a convicted fraudster.

Michael Robert Alexander Brown (born 19 April 1966 in Glasgow), who between 10 February and 30 March 2005 donated £2.

Melissa Ann Shepard (née Russell; born May 16, 1935), also known as Melissa Ann Weeks, Melissa Ann Friedrich, Melissa Ann Shephard and Melissa Ann Stewart, sometimes given the sobriquet of Internet Black Widow, is a Canadian woman and habitual offender.

Mark Bounds is a former American football punter.

Darius Guppy (born 1964) is a British–Iranian businessman, noted for his colourful ancestry, high-society contacts and unconventional opinions.

Edme Castaing (1796 – 6 December 1823) was a French physician and is thought to have been the first person to use morphine to commit murder.

Adel Smith (March 9, 1960 – August 22, 2014), born as Emilio Smith in Alexandria, Egypt, was an Italian Muslim known for his radical stances and often accused of fundamentalism.

Amy Maud Bock (1859 – 29 August 1943) was a Tasmanian-born New Zealand female confidence trickster and male impersonator, whose trials and cross-dressing interlude have made her a subject of perennial historical interest in her adopted country.

Kwon Hyi-ro (Japanese: Kin Kirō) (November 20, 1928 – March 26, 2010) was a second-generation Korean in Japan born in November, 1928 in Shimizu, Shizuoka, who became a national hero in South Korea after holding 18 Japanese citizens hostage in 1968.

Paul Coffin is a Canadian businessman who pleaded guilty to 15 counts of fraud in connection with the sponsorship scandal involving the Liberal Party of Canada in May 2005.

Cassie L. Chadwick (10 October 1857 – 10 October 1907) is the infamous name used by a Canadian woman who defrauded several U.

Edward Porta (born November 13, 1954) was an Argentinian textile trader based in the area of Spartanburg, South Carolina.

Gill or Gila (Gillian Chelsea Clarissa) Rosenberg (Hebrew: גיל רוזנברג‎‎; born 1983) is a Canadian–Israeli woman who became internationally known when she became the first female foreigner to join YPJ forces fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

Artur Virgílio Alves Reis (Lisbon, 8 September 1896 – 9 June 1955) was a Portuguese criminal who perpetrated one of the largest frauds in history, against the Bank of Portugal in 1925, often called the Portuguese Bank Note Crisis.

Emmanuel Nwude is a Nigerian notable advance-fee fraud artist and former Director of Union Bank of Nigeria.

Glenn Dawson Wheatley (born 23 January 1948) is an Australian talent manager, entertainment industry executive and former musician.

Kjell Inge Røkke (born 25 October 1958 in Molde) is a Norwegian businessman and among the richest people in Norway, controlling the Norwegian company Aker Solutions.

Grigory Petrovich Grabovoy (Russian: Григо́рий Петро́вич Грабово́й) (born November 14, 1963 in the region of Shymkent, Kazakhstan) is a Russian Doctor of Mathematics.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (born Nomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela on 26 September 1936) is a South African activist and politician who has held several government positions and headed the African National Congress Women's League.

Charles Ronald George Nall-Cain, 3rd Baron Brocket (born 12 February 1952), also known as Charlie Brocket, is a peer, former prisoner and television presenter in the United Kingdom.

Timothy Blair (January 3, 1967 – February 14, 2013), better known by his stage name Tim Dog, was an American rapper from the Bronx, New York, who rose to prominence during the early 1990s with his debut LP Penicillin on Wax and the celebrated diss track "Fuck Compton.

José María Ruiz–Mateos y Jiménez de Tejada (11 April 1931 – 7 September 2015) was a Spanish businessman, politician, serial fraudster and convicted felon.

Ma Anand Sheela (Gujarati: માં આનંદ શિલા; born 28 December 1949 as Sheela Ambalal Patel in India), In 1985, Sheela pleaded guilty to attempted murder and assault for her role in the 1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack.

Tom Hayes is a former trader for UBS and Citigroup who was arrested, tried, sentenced to fourteen years in prison for his role in the Libor Scandal, in which Libor rates were manipulated to produce favorable trading conditions.

Sigurdur Thordarson (Sigurður Ingi Þórðarson) was born in 1992 in Reykjavík.

Fatemeh Karimkhani (a.k.a. Angela Harkness, born in 1976, in Tehran, Iran) is a convicted scam artist.

Frank Murud (born 23 December 1955) is a former chief of real estate in the city administration of Oslo, who became notorious for the embezzlement of ca.

Alan Bond (22 April 1938 – 5 June 2015) was an Australian businessman noted for his high-profile business dealings, including his central role in the WA Inc scandals of the 1980s, and what was at the time the biggest corporate collapse in Australian history; for his bankrolling the successful challenge for the 1983 America's Cup, the first time the New York Yacht Club had ever lost it in its 132-year history; and also for a criminal conviction that saw him serve four years in prison.

Gerald Daniel Blanchard (born 1972 in Winnipeg) is a Canadian Described by police as one of the most sophisticated criminal masterminds the country has ever seen, who orchestrated never seen before high tech crimes crossing 3 continents.

Gerald Maurice Ronson, CBE (born 27 May 1939) is a business tycoon and philanthropist.

Nadhmi Shakir Auchi, KSS (Arabic: نظمي أوجي‎‎; born 11 June 1937), is a British Iraqi businessman and billionaire, founding president of the Anglo Arab Organisation, and the founder and chairman of General Mediterranean Holding (GMH), a conglomerate of 120 companies worldwide.

Calisto Tanzi (Collecchio, November 17, 1938) is an Italian businessman notorious for embezzling an estimated eight-hundred million euros from Italian company Parmalat, founded by him, resulting in a great loss for the company.

John George Haigh (24 July 1909 – 10 August 1949), commonly known as the Acid Bath Murderer, was an English serial killer in the 1940s.

Elisabeth Wiese (1 July 1853 – 2 February 1905) was a German serial killer from Hamburg, convicted and executed for the killing of five children.

Malcolm Hardee (5 January 1950 – 31 January 2005) was an English comedian, author, comedy club proprietor, compère, agent, manager and "amateur sensationalist".

Mohamed Alanssi is a Yemeni national who has worked as an informant for the FBI in over 20 terrorism-related federal prosecutions, starting in November 2001.

Nochi Dankner (Hebrew: נוחי דנקנר‎‎; born 13 November 1954) is an Israeli convicted in Securities Fraud.

Ris Low (Chinese: 刘依敏) was crowned Miss Singapore World 2009 on 31 July 2009.

Theresa Rose Lawson (born 1951) is a former Woolworths payroll clerk and St Marys Band Club director, who stole more than A$2.

Franz Seraph Tausend, "Der Goldmacher" (July 5, 1884 - July 9, 1942) was a 20th-century German alchemist.

Friedrich Minoux (March 21, 1877 – October 16, 1945) was a German industrialist and financier who is best known for being one of the owners of the Wannsee House, where the namesake conference that would decide the fate of millions at the hands of the Nazis during World War II was held in early 1942.

Ernest Walter Saunders (born 21 October 1935) is a British former business manager, best known as one of the "Guinness Four", a group of businessmen who attempted fraudulently to manipulate the share price of the Guinness company.

Bertram Earl Jones (born June 24, 1942) is a Canadian non-practicing investment adviser who pleaded guilty to running a Ponzi scheme which CBC News has reported cost his victims "a conservative estimate of about C$51.

Kweku Adoboli (born 21 May 1980) is a Ghanaian ex-trader known for his role in the 2011 UBS rogue trader scandal.

Giancarlo Parretti (born 23 October 1941) is an Italian financier.

Bjarte Baasland (born 5 March 1974) is a former Norwegian businessman and convicted fraudster.

Charles William Ingram (born 6 August 1963 in Shardlow, Derbyshire) is a former British Army major who made headlines worldwide after being convicted of cheating to win the one million pounds jackpot on the game show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? in 2001.

Pauline Lee Hanson (née Seccombe, formerly Zagorski; born 27 May 1954) is an Australian politician.

Abraham Gilbert "Abe" Saffron (6 October 1919 – 15 September 2006) was an Australian nightclub owner and property developer who was reputed to have been one of the major figures in Australian organised crime in the latter half of the 20th century.

Albert Johnson Walker (born 1946) is a Canadian criminal serving a prison term for embezzlement and murder.

Anton Gelonkin (born c. 1964) was a Russian bank chairman who disappeared during the 1995 collapse of the Moscow City Bank and later convicted of running an international organised internet based fraud in 2006.

Arnold Karl Sodeman (12 December 1899 – 1 June 1936), also known as the School-girl Strangler, was a serial killer who targeted children.

Edward Murray Charles Ede (24 April 1881 – 23 July 1936) was an English cricketer.

Steve Madden (born 1958) is an American fashion designer and businessman.

Friedrich Heinrich Karl "Fritz" Haarmann (25 October 1879 – 15 April 1925) was a German serial killer, known as the Butcher of Hanover and the Vampire of Hanover, who committed the sexual assault, murder, mutilation and dismemberment of a minimum of 24 boys and young men between 1918 and 1924 in Hanover, Germany.

Dr. James "Jim" Saleam (/ˈseɪl.əm/, (born 18 September 1955) is an Australian far-right activist and the current chairman of the Australia First Party.

Joan Constance Anne Henry (8 April 1914 – 2000) was an English novelist, playwright and screenwriter.