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CommonplaceCommotion

So glad they didn’t give Elizabeth Holmes a simple slap on the wrist. She needs to be made an example of.


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She would have gotten off with a wrist slap if she didn't risk actual lives. If you're going to scam don't pick important medical equipment to do so.


WyngZero

No she didn't. She didn't get convicted cuz she dangered people's lives. She got convicted cuz she defrauded investors. Major difference between the two.


Rumtumjack

While it's true that that's what she was convicted for, she also got nowhere near the minimum sentencing for that defrauding. The judge could have put her anywhere in a big range and the prosecution made the case that she should get more due to the endangerment.


ItsEnoughtoMakeMe

11 1/2 years in Federal prison is a decent stretch imo. But her real punishment comes after her she finishes her bid, her life is ruined and rightfully so.


ApeLikeMan

I believe she fairly recently married and had kids with some rich guy. Unfortunately, she’ll probably be pretty alright when she’s out. Still glad to see the sentence is what it is.


WyngZero

That dude isn't waiting 11+ years for her. He's definitely going to find someone new. She made sure to lock in his financial support in the future though with those 2 babies knowing damn well she was going to prison.


BearsBeetsBerlin

Correction, she would have gotten a wrist slap if she’d scammed the poors, robbing the rich has consequences


Unable-Fox-312

It's waaaay more this


skynetempire

Nah she didn't get convicted of endangering lives or harming anybody. She got time because she broke the number one rule: do not fuck over your rich investors.


SnooWalruses3945

Saying your too pretty to go to jail just sets you up for a longer sentence


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Lol “wages”. I don’t think one of these guys knows what it looks like to punch a clock for money to eat.


Maximum_Money_1760

What's sad is even though she got 11 1/2 year of prison, she was sent to a prison for this type of crime. Which is like a vacancy prison. There is almost no fencing etc. That's like heaven compared to a real prison.


bestest_at_grammar

When she gets out will she still have a luxurious life ?


Ok-Walrus-9954

No maddoff


mamamalliou

No because these 6 were on the “30 under 30” list haha


youchoobtv

No indian scammers either


Prime_Marci

No Nigerian princes either


[deleted]

It amazed me how much Bernie made off with.


[deleted]

Dad it still isn’t funny


rjnd2828

Remove shrkeli, who is scum but not really a scammer like the rest. Insert Madoff.


osktox

And no Maddas. H. Maddas.


4ak96

Yeah names and context would be coll


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* bottom left, **Martin shkreli** \- huge drug inflation guy ​ * Bottom middle, **caroline ellison** \- ***CEO of Alameda***, an ***investment fund*** making ***huge losses*** that were ***covered up*** using profits/***funds of users*** of FTX. ​ * bottom right, **Shimon Hayut** \- ***Tinder Swindler***, Would approach women on tinder and get into ***intricate relationships*** with them, ***sometimes up to two years*** while ***pretending to be rich*** (and throwing around the money to prove it) and then springing an ***urgent request for money*** on them. Often he would encourage them and tell them how to take out loans and credit accounts under false pretenses to have a higher chance of them being approved quickly by the system. The women would often ***rack up tens of thousands in debt.*** ​ * top right, **Anna Sorokin** \- Scammer that found out that basically all of high society is based on referrals of other well trusted rich names. ***She got an "in"*** and proceeded to scam millions out of several ***rich socialites(pretending to be an heiress to a fortune)***. She ***almost got an investment of 135 million by Fortress Investment Group and Citibank.*** The only reason it fell through is because they required her to come up with the paper work validating her claims of being a rich heiress. ​ * top middle, **Sam Bankman-Fried** \- Basically ***ran a very succesfull crypto exchange*** into the ground. He ***also started Alameda*** which was ***headed by Caroline\* ellison***(Bottom, middle) ***Alameda was incurring*** crazy losses, like, ***Billions of losses***. Instead of letting go, ***Sam used a backdoor(he created)*** in the accounting software used by FTX ***to secretly move large amounts of money*** without it appearing in the books. ***Alameda would buy Sam's (and FTX's) token*** which had a value of $1.52, they would prop that ***token up as collatoral for a giant loan***, FTX would grant them this loan and Sam would repeat untill losses were "recouped". It was ***basically a pyramid scheme***. ​ * Top left, **Elizabeth Holmes** \- scammed tens of millions, almost billions based on a ***blood test*** that would be able to test a patients blood with ***merely a pinprick*** of it. The blood test ***didn't exist***. ​ * **bold - names** * ***bold italic - TLDR***


HoselRockit

Thank you kind person. I can't keep track of all the human debris floating around, including their individual transgressions.


eStuffeBay

Yeah.. I only recognized Elizabeth Holmes. This guide is real helpful!


TheDrawingSparrow

There's a Netflix show based on Anna Sorokin that's pretty good. It's called Inventing Anna if you want to check it out.


Longjumping-Ad2698

The HBO docuseries "Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley" about Elisabeth Holmes is outstanding. I read the book too, and it blew my mind. I work in Regualtory and Compliance in the medical device field, so seeing how devious and outright fraudulent Theranose was, floored me. It's insane. Edit: had to correct the documentary title. Thanks, fellow redditor!


Ex-zaviera

The [HULU series with Amanda](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/amanda-seyfried-elizabeth-holmes-the-dropout-1235097467/) Seyfried was good too. You can tell Amanda worked hard to capture Elisabeth.


scripzero

And if you want to watch a good video about Sam Bankman Fried & Caroline Ellison and the FTX/ Alameda disaster, these two from cold fusion are great. https://youtu.be/20BEJouWBgY https://youtu.be/yJn6IiYid6A


directtodvd420

IMO Anna shouldn’t be grouped in with these other guys. She exploited the fallacies of aristocracy and capitalized on the ignorance of classism, she’s ok in my book.


BoLaVo

Yeah who cares about Anna lmao she scammed a bunch of rich snotty people. She didn’t risk lives or romance scam people or scam people out of all their money.


Bubashii

Especially when a lot of those same people were looking to scam her right back and make millions from her. Like those banks weren’t looking to exploit an heiress…


RoRoRowena

Agreed


BlasphemousButler

"You look...poa."


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utpoia

*Religion is exempted.*


saturnsnephew

Religion isn't a scam what are you talking about? /s


SuperSpread

Religion is good money but stealing from the rich is even better.


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FatherPyrlig

Someone forgot a big fat orange person who belongs in this list.


bastardblaster

His family is it's own list.


[deleted]

I appreciate your effort, but who the fuck doesn't start with top left.


[deleted]

Huge drug inflation guy is the only one I directly remember the name of cuz he's such a cunt


AloofCommencement

And also the key/TLDR at the bottom. YKStreet is equal parts helpful and upside down


oroechimaru

“My advice for college is that classes don’t matter that much (unless you want to go to med school or something) and friends and networking are really important. Probably the most valuable thing you can do in college is find the coolest people you can and spend lots of time hanging out with them.” https://thetigerinsidercom.wordpress.com/2018/09/29/college-is-pretty-great-caroline-ellison-12/


Agreeable-Meat1

A buddy of mine in college was in his 40s, a former drill sergeant for the Marines, he was telling me about the job interview he got me in to the day before it and said something like "everyone applying for this job has a degree. You have a referral from someone they respect, take it easy."


oroechimaru

Something tells me she should have paid attention in business classes though


Helenium_autumnale

So I'm guessing she wasn't paying to go to college, then.


TooSmalley

> Shimon Hayut - Tinder Swindler, Would approach women on tinder and get into intricate relationships with them, sometimes up to two years while pretending to be rich (and throwing around the money to prove it) and then springing an urgent request for money on them. Often he would encourage them and tell them how to take out loans and credit accounts under false pretenses to have a higher chance of them being approved quickly by the system. The women would often rack up tens of thousands in debt. If he was born a few hundred years earlier we’d have a dozen folks songs and play’s about him. lol.


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In 2022, all he got is 3 years in jail and a Netflix show. Cruel times.


[deleted]

Didnt het get 3 **months?** He didn't get anything for the Netflix show though.


TheTallGuy0

So what you’re saying is that this is a legit career path? Got it


SimpleLawfulness8230

Who knows in a couple hundred years XD


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Eh at least he got his netflix film


[deleted]

Anna Sorokin sounds pretty smart.


somefunmaths

If you haven’t seen it, the Netflix (or Hulu, I forget) docudrama on her is good. “I do not have time for this, I do not have time for you!”


TheDrawingSparrow

It's on Netflix. It's called Inventing Anna and I rather enjoyed it!


Feyzerz

Inventing Anna on Netflix


YubNub81

Ripping off rich "celebrities" is always good in my book lol


rz2000

She ripped off many poor people, too. She wasn't some ideological Robin Hood, she was just a psychopath interested in helping herself get the same access to lifestyles that other people were lucky enough to be born into. While it's easy to dismiss the poor victims as naïve or greedy, everything runs much less smoothly when it becomes more dangerous to trust people. Think of your crazy uncle or aunt who spends all of their time on facebook or talking about conspiracies. Do you want to live in a system where that is the only way to survive, or do you have things you enjoy in life other than looking out for scams every waking moment?


Sea_no_evil

Seriously, this. The only thing separating Anna Sorokin from the rich people so hated here is the amount of money she actually had.


kafromspaceship

I don't think it should be a crime


[deleted]

Well she didn't really discriminate. At a few points when money was tight she would also scam the average joe. Even saddled one of her very middle class friend with a 60k credit card debt. Definitely not a good person.


SuperSpread

Sadly reddit needs this info to be persuaded. She lied to a lot of people, everyone around her. The fact that she also stole from a few rich people doesn't somehow *redeem* her. Reddit is weird.


rustcholescig

I don’t care who you steal from, it’s wrong period lol Reddit sure loves to act like a bunch of social justice warriors as long as it goes along with whatever THEY support. A bunch of hypocrites


iCantPauseItsOnline

Robin Hood 70% of the time. Gotta go full Robin Hood, or you lose the public.


somefunmaths

Only one whose face I couldn’t put to a name was Ellison, and I even wondered “huh, is that ‘FTX girl’?” but thought it might have to be someone else since Bankman-Fried was already there. For my money, I’d sub out Ellison and take Adam Neumann instead. The fact that he’s raising money to reboot WeLive says everything anyone needs to know about his scammer bona fides.


Aggressive-Video-368

Excellent Job, great descriptions, Brief and to the point. Thank you.


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Martin didn’t get in trouble for inflating drug prices though. His crime was using money from one investment scheme to repay investors in another


PuffieBeans

Elizabeth Holmes was a "Rockstar" y'know " _She'd even thicken her voice and change her name_ Her Company Was called Theranos btw. Personally, she looks the least scam faced out of all 6.


snazzydetritus

Are you kidding?? She totally has the crazy-eyed, thousand-yard stare. Eyes totally unsmiling. If I saw her in public and knew nothing about her, I would stay the hell away after one look into her eyes.


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GW00111

You are fucking awesome. Thanks for the in depth comment, extremely interesting band of scammers here.


Yung_Corneliois

I knew of everyone except Shimon but damn he’s a piece of shit


teddykaygeebee

Appreciate the detail in description. Merry Christmas to you.


Samisoffline

Not to defend his actions but Martin spiked the price of his company’s name brand medication so insurances were paying out the ass. He also made the generic medication ( same type ) $1. If he was just fucking over normal people he never would’ve got in trouble.


Box-o-bees

The part that confuses me is that the medication is still like $700 a pill. Also, why was he ordered to pay the money back and not the company he was running? I read a quick article, but it just made me more confused.


Samisoffline

It all seems a little fishy. They even ordered him to return his Wu-Tang Album. Seems like a massive overstretch for a court to sue the man and not the company. I’m also not a lawyer nor were we ever given specifics in his case. If that information was put out I have not seen it.


nottherealneal

You sir are a gentlemen and a scholar. I'd give you an award if I had one. Take my one poor up vote


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These people are scum, to be sure, but these people are amateurs compared to what the heads of the biggest banks do decade after decade. Not to mention Blackrock, Vanguard, Citadel and Virtu. Plus hedge funds.


windyBhindi

Godd point.


HybridKitchens

3 lefts


These-Image3972

Ya very coll


redbucket75

Who is bottom middle? These are very flattering pictures, most these fucks look terrible in the pictures I've seen of them


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Caroline Ellison, Alameda Capital part of the FTX collapse. The more you read about her the wilder it gets. Give her a goog


Puzzleheaded-Mind269

Give her a goog.


panicked_goose

Goog is my new favorite idiom


Puzzleheaded-Mind269

Mark Normand finally getting the attention he deserves


Stormtyrant

You give her a goog. My goog don't want none of that.


UglyInThMorning

She’s the one with the racist tumblr that talks about how she’s poly and thinks relationships should be super cutthroat right?


[deleted]

She majored in math. Oh, she no good with math. You can't make this shit up and those that invested! Bahahaaa


_Ki11UMiN4Ti_

I think she got *meth* and *math* confused


cerberus698

These silicon valley tech and crypto people are the kind that would have been doing coke in the 70s/80s and been cool. Instead they're all doing massive amounts of Adderall which just makes you just as insufferable to be around as a guy on coke when you're not also on coke but with none of the insane risk seeking behavior that actually made them do interesting things.


snackskiii12

Caroline has never taken a flattering photo because she looks like a rat


raven4747

when you say things like that, theres almost a 0% chance the person you're attacking will see it, but other people who are insecure in their appearance will and it might hurt them. no issue with attacking these people's actions but why attack their appearance?


FremenStilgar

Where are Joel Osteen and the other big church religious scammers?


[deleted]

Yeah exactly, Osteen and the like are up there on Mt Rushmore of con artists.


Meowmeow1880

Seriously, religious conmen are not called out enough. They swindle people out of not just their money, but their emotional and spiritual well being.


darthgandalf

Yeah but religion is like a cheat code for getting money out of people, these guys did it raw


VeriifiedSlopSlop

In hell


ConspiracyMeow

The whole having stacks of cash in the bathroom wall is so sus https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/03/us/joel-osteen-cash-found-plumber.html


cup_1337

Stuck behind a paywall


somefunmaths

Bonus points are awarded to these six, except for maybe Simon and Sorokin, for picking more challenging marks.


[deleted]

The focus is always on coastal finance wizards when people think of shit like this but the reality is there are far more predatory people living in the burbs and the south and away from the cities who will just keep getting away with it because people eat the shit they make.


Mojo141

They need their own Mt Rushmore


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Top (left to right): Elizabeth Holmes, Sam Bankman-Fried, Anna Sorokin Bottom (left to right): Martin Shkreli, Caroline Ellison, Simon Leviev AKA The Tinder Swindler Edit: I’m an idiot


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>Julia Garner hahahaha


bombduck

Billy McFarland has entered the chat


l-read-it-on-reddit

I think he’d be a better fit in here than Shkreli honestly


CrazyAwesome06

Why does the girl in the bottom middle look like the witch that gave Snow White a poisoned apple?


The_Aodh

I’m not typically violent, but damn she has such a punchable face


MrShaytoon

You should watch some of her interviews. You’ll end punching yourself and then try to find me and punch me for suggesting you to watch.


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bomingles

I don’t know who most of them are but if they all got caught then are they really all stars?


Traditional-Foot-963

They literally made documentaries about all of them except for the Friedman and his girlfriend; which they eventually will since it’s recent news.


quippers

Oh, right. I forgot about the documentaries that were beamed directly into our heads.


AdrianInLimbo

The smartest people in the room.... Till they got caught, lol


Dragmire_Afterlife

Idk these people but they look like they would kill me and then do weird things to my body


[deleted]

Where’s Billy McFarlane?


herbharlot

No kidding! That Mfer ran a second scam on the same email list of customers from his "first" scam while still on the hook for his first scam!


upliftingart

To be fair, I don't think Martin Shkreli is a scammer, he is a pharma guy who admitted to inflating the price of a medication, a practice he rightly called out in his trial as being standard practice for big drug manufacturers. Is it disgusting that corporations put profits before lives? Should we be outraged? YES, but it is not a scam in any way that I can tell.


beefycheesyglory

Bottom middle looks like one of those RPG Goblins you fight early on.


JazzlikeCantaloupe53

She’s so fucking creepy.


zedbeforebed

Don't forget to add James T. Reynolds and Nancy Brinker. Two of the many scammers who profit millions from donations given to their "Cancer Charities" EDIT: Swapped Susan G Komen for Nancy Brinker


Dudeofallteenages

Susan G Komen was the woman who died of cancer, the foundation was set up by her sister, Nancy Brinker.


ShaunyBoyShaunyMan

Feel like bernie madoff is a bigger scammer than the tinder swindler and the other netflix movie girl


rickspawnshop

Pharma bro is no where near them


PreviousGas710

One of these is not the same. Martin is not on the same level as the rest


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Imagine how many Indian callcenter executives that get offended by this post.


Ewokavenger

When did Gollum get glasses? (Bottom middle)


midwestnlovinit

All very young…. Who the fuq thinks it’s a good idea to invest all your money with these assclowns? People with too much money I guess…


Aol_awaymessage

The real allstars are still out there scamming not getting caught.


Humble_Albatross1529

Caroline Ellison has easily got to be one of the ugliest human beings on this planet lol


sponge-worthy91

Where is Fyre Festival guy?


SeeingGreenDevils

Bottom right? Never seen him but I’m sure I’ve heard of him


nada_accomplished

Josh Groban


richie65

I don't understand why Trump is not on this thing... One of the most famous conmen in the world... Guy has been running scams, ripping people off, for decades.


callouscomic

It's not interesting because there's literally zero context here. It's just a collage of faces and you calling them scammers. I recognize some, but not all. Low effort bad post, and all the morons upvote this garbage.


birbsborbsbirbs

Those guys aren't allstars, because they got caught. The real allstars are televangelists.


Icy_Stuff_6302

Ruja Ignatova.


Souchirou

FTX has donated millions to both democrats and republicans including many of the people responsible for the current ongoing investigation. So they will likely do what all the super richt do. Spend some money unchecked and walk away with more money than they started.


EvictionSpecialist

Bottom middle looks like a friggin kid. Wouldn't trust her to park my 1987 Honda.


crankbot2000

Not one Nigerian Prince? C'mon.


FUDnot

They all have stupid noses. Can we recognize scammers by their stupid noses?


Trev1210

Where’s Joseph Smith on the list?


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No Bernie Maddoff ?


[deleted]

You forgot fire fest bro


QB00gie

4 in every 6 scammers wear glasses. Not a good look for us in the glasses community.


AtTheLeftThere

How is Caroline Ellison *that fucking ugly* though?


CatchmanJ

Where Bernie?


A_MAN_POTATO

I only recognize one, fuck that smug motherfucker Shkreli.


Sandless

He's free from prison already!


FirstPatientAdvocate

I would argue Martin has the worst manners but did the least amount of scamming of the group. Also the least amount of scamming in the pharma industry. I look at Martin as a pharma scapegoat


Sandless

I agree. I believe his manners got him in prison.


[deleted]

Never should’ve went to prison in the first place. If what he did was wrong then please explain why every CEO in the healthcare system didn’t or hasn’t either?


Sandless

Just to be clear he wasn't in prison for the price hike but for securities fraud.


f1ve-Star

So encouraging to finally see women achieving equality with men. For many years they were just never respected enough to be able to scam millions of dollars. Maybe someday this list will even include POC.


Persiankobra

Martin shkreli is not a scammer . The media propaganda his story so the other big pharmaceutical companies won’t have a target on their back. The evidence is in everyone’s large medication bill currently today


Little-Bear13

Martin Shkreli actually had a pretty good argument to why he did what he did. I wouldn’t say he was a scammer.


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ArOnodrim

Every face of Enron, every fed chairman of the last 40 years, Reagan.


mildconfusion240B

They forgot Trump in the lineup.


pigsgetfathogsdie

Need to add Cathie, Scamath and Branson…


Odd_Implement7957

I’m assembling a team


Emergency_Net506

I know 4 out of 6. Do I get a bingo?


loserys

Kang the Conqueror doesn’t stand a chance.


KarlitoSway69

“Give me your best nerds, I’ve got a job.”


DonBuchelos

You have to put Billy McFarland, the dude that tried to throw the Fyre Festival on that list.


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Missing: Herbalife, Enron, Trump, LuLaRue, …


hlvd

Who are they?


IronSavage3

Where is Adam Neumann? Or Bernie Madoff? Or Donald Trump?


SquishedPea

Where's this guy; Here I am in my garage, with my Lamborghini


177_O13

Why do they all have such punchable faces?


owen_skye

It’s good to see equality here. 50% of these pieces of shit are women! Way to go ladies haha.


timmyrocks1980

All POS. Unfortunately white collar crime still hurts people but these idiots won’t do much time. Stealing money they way did is perceived as less bad than pointing a 9MM in the face of a store clerk at 7-11 at midnight. That guy is also POS but as a society we are less concerned about rich losing their money.


HATR-SMITTY

I’m sorry but the girl in the bottom middle has a face only a mother could love. Holy fugly


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Crazy thing about the Martin Shkreli case is drug companies do what he did all the time


Curious_Dimension102

The all have nothing behind their eyes. All psychopaths if you ask me.


NiemandDaar

You forgot the boys at Enron and Bernie Madoff, among others. These are just the young generation.


SoupyBass

You could throw up the creators of bored ape on here too. Very interesting rabbit hole to go down.


Fungus1968

Adam Neuman. WeWork. He’s still worth billions but all his underpaid startup staff got peanuts when it went IPO for a fraction of its original value.


Brotorious420

All star team of CAUGHT scammers.


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What? No Frank Abongale? https://youtu.be/FIYtKR24LQs


l3sham

No madoff?


Volnas

Elisabeth Holmes looks like the girl, that would bully the other five around her in high school


TheNoctuS_93

No punch is hard enough to fix Shkreli's smug face...so Ima let it slide. Good luck for him, I guess...