Famous Frauds

• Archer, Kevin

  The nonexistent victim of a McDonalds play area injury that didn't happen

• Baby Eve

  Allegedly, the first cloned human baby

• Carter, Asa Earl

  Author of The Education of Little Tree

• Cleo, Miss

  Jamaican-sounding infomercial psychic

• Defonseca, Misha

  The fraud behind Misha: A Memoire of the Holocaust

• De Hory, Elmyr

  Art forger and author of the book Fake!

• Dolezal, Rachel

  The white woman who pretended to be black

• Fox Sisters, The

  The toe-cracking teens who claimed to be spiritualists

• Irving, Clifford

  Author of the fake Howard Hughes biography

• Landis, Mark

  The art forger in the 2014 documentary Art and Craft

• Madoff, Bernard

  The Wall Street money manager who swindled $50 billion

• Orton, Arthur

  The impostor who claimed to be a rich British woman's son

• Ponzi, Carlo

  The guy behind the Ponzi Scheme

• Ruiz, Rosie

  The woman who cheated to "win" the 1980 Boston Marathon

• Tourist Guy, The

  Subject of a faked World Trade Center snapshot

• Warbeck, Perkin

  Royal pretender during the reign of England's Henry VII

See: Index by Occupation