Scam Movies

In the bitter winter of 1978, four desperate council members from a small Virginia town hatched a daring Bigfoot hoax to save it from the brink of...

Wincapita documentary film gives a silenced perspective on Finland's alleged biggest financial crime and pyramid scheme.

A London taxicab driver cashes in on a big sweepstakes ticket and becomes the prey of a confidence-gang that sells him a nag of a cavalry horse on...

School teacher Tien falls in love with Oppa, a man she met online. One day, she hears Oppa talking on the phone about his seriously ill mother and...

Short on funds, a Toronto slacker hatches a plot to scam the owner of a lost credit card.

After a botched scam, a seasoned con-man faces a moral crossroads: abandon his 10-year-old daughter or risk her following in his footsteps.

It's 2020. Covid Britain is in lockdown and the world is working from home. In the depths of the deadly pandemic and when people are at their lowest,...

Marvin Willert and Josie McCale work together at Sellex, an electronics company. When Marvin finally asks Josie on a date, she discovers that Marvin...

In 2013, online clay animator Robert Benfer scammed hundreds of fans out of thousands of dollars and has continued to become less of the independent...

Filmed in Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), An Introduction to Scientology is the only televised interview given by L. Ron Hubbard. In this...

Documentary about best-selling author and informercial pioneer Kevin Trudeau.

Two sailors, Lasse and Karl Gustav, float ashore after a shipwreck. Visiting a castle a baron ask them to help him lay his hands on an inheritance...

This entry in the Crime Does Not Pay series focuses on charity fraud. Two scam artists set themselves up as 'philanthropists' to help raise money for...

Investigation into a highly sophisticated scam involving criminal gangs, modern-day slavery and victims around the world who have lost millions of...

Rita discovers that she is the victim of a scam in the purchase of a piece of land and denounces the woman who manages the place. Without finding...

Monopoly is the most famous board game in the world. It brought capitalism to the game board and made haggling over roads and train stations socially...

an online gamer encounters an NPC in real life from having skipped a youtube advert

An investigation into the tricks of holiday scammers, talking to victims and experts, and advice on how to fight back.

Grandchild fraudsters scare their victims on the phone with so-called "shock calls". The losses run into millions. Month after month. Many victims...