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Secrets Of The Scammers

From eastern Europeans scamming tourists with the three cup game on Westminster bridge, Credit card scams to online scammers follow the British police and "Scam Baiters" as they tackle the growing scam problem. British people loose more than any other falling for online scams, we have all received the emails claiming long lost relatives have left us millions and while most see through the scam some people often the most vulnerable fall for it.

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Secrets Of The Scammers Documentary

Lance Armstrong: Stop At Nothing

Stop at nothing is a 2014 documentary telling the almost unbelievable story of perhaps the biggest scam in the history of sport. The story earns the superlative "Unbelievable" not because a sportsman took drugs to enhance his performance but because one of the top sportsmen and icons of all time took it, won everything with it, destroyed lives to deny it and eventually lost it all.

Lance Armstrong was an American hero dominating a sport were through history Europeans had always led. No competition proved European dominance more that the biggest of them all The Tour de France. Greg LeMond's two wins were the only by an American since 1903, Armstrong would go on to win seven in a row. Perhaps most notably he had fought back from cancer three years before wining his first Tour de France, thus becoming a beacon for fellow cancer survivors.

The documentary looks at the entire career of Armstrong and the events that lead to him and his team setting up one of the most complex doping regimes imaginable. We hear from those who brought the case to light, Paul Kimmage who's claims against Armstrong went unnoticed for years, Frankie and Betsy Andreu once close friends then demonized by Lance and Emma O'Reilly a former masseuse slandered and discredited by him.

Lance Armstrong: Stop At Nothing Documentary

Eric Hebborn: Portrait Of A Master Forger

Eric Hebborn claims to have drawn over 1000 sketches that were attributed to master painters and sold under their names. In this documentary Hebborn living in Italy tells his story of how he came to start sketching and how the sketches ended up being attributed to artists such as Castiglione, Van Dyck, Corot and Rubens. He claims he is not a forger and did nothing wrong it was up to the experts to decipher from were the pictures originated. Hebborn had come clean in 1991 in his book Drawn to Trouble and shortly after the BBC screened the documentary. In 1996 five years after this film and just after the release of his second book The Art Forger's Handbook Eric Hebborn was assassinated in Rome.

Eric Hebborn: Portrait Of A Master Forger

Madoff And The $65 Billion Scamming Of America

In this History Channel documentary the focus is on Bernard Madoff a former chairman of NASDAQ who ran the biggest known Ponzi scheme in history. Madoff had worked in Finance all his life and was trusted, seen to be a genius people were queuing up to invest even though they didn't really know what they were investing in. Financial Experts, Journalists and some of those stung for millions of dollars talk about the ordeal that in total cost investors around $65 billion. So just what is a Ponzi scheme ? How did Madoff get some of the richest people including celebrities and sports stars to invest and what happened when it all came crashing down ?

Madoff And The Scamming Of America

Major Fraud : Who Wants To Be A Millionaire Scandal

In 2001 Charles Ingram won the jackpot of £1 Million ($1.51 Million) on the British version of the smash hit TV game show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. But something was not right, the producers, floor staff and even other contestants waiting for their chance in the Fastest Finger First seats could feel it. But what was it; if Ingram was cheating then how Celador the producers went to great lengths to ensure contestants could not cheat there was after all Millions at stake.What followed was an investigation that involved Ingram and a man that was sitting in one of those Fastest Finger First seat called Tecwen Whittock.

This documentary covers how Celador believed Whittock was working with Ingram.They said Ingram and Wittock had contrived a scheme whereby Ingram would say out loud all the answers to each question and Whittock would cough when the right answer was said.It may seem bizarre but payment of the Million Pounds was suspended and the case dragged through the courts .Unlike a previous game show scandal documentary we posted Big Bucks : The Press Your Luck Scandal this had no blurred lines if guilty it was blatant cheating.

The show was never aired but in the documentary we get to see the show and hear the alleged coughs at just the right times.Staff, contestants and presenter Chris Tarrant (who admits he had no idea anything untoward was happening) give their views on what could have been the perfect crime had greed not taken over.

Major Fraud : Who Wants To Be A Millionaire Scandal

Breaking Vegas : The MIT Blackjack Team

The MIT Blackjack team are probably the most famous and successful group of casino card counters ever.Starting around 1979 the team, it's members and techniques changed over the years but it was the team in the early 90's that enjoyed the most success. Millions of dollars were at stake but with the teams counting techniques they had turned the odds always in favor of the house to favor them.

But card counting is illegal and casinos are always on the look out for counters they needed to go under the radar, big winners at casinos never go under the radar. This documentary shows how the team assembled and how they took casinos for a fortune.

Breaking Vegas : The MIT Blackjack Team

Big Bucks : The Press Your Luck Scandal

Press your luck was a popular daytime game show on CBS is the early eighty's running from 1983 to 1986.The show had two stage types, trivia to earn spins on a prize board then the prize board round itself. So a simple enough format and some generous prizes with contestants on occasion walking away with over $20,000. To get a good win you needed luck, no matter how good at trivia you may be.Money was won on lost on the prize board and that was random, or so they thought.

Michael Larson appeared on the show in 1984 and won an amazing $110,237 (Equivalent to a quarter million dollars today). That was three times more than ever won before on Press Your Luck, in fact it was the most money ever won on any TV game show. In the documentary presented by Peter Tomarken who was the actual presenter of Press Your Luck when Michael won looks back at the episode. Was Michael so lucky he avoided the dreaded "Whammy" which takes all your winnings on the prize board for over 30 spins in a row or did he know something nobody else did ?

Big Bucks : The Press Your Luck Scandal
 
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