Confidence tricksters

Czech fraudster (1890–1947)

Russian-born German fraudster (born 1991)

Italian businessman and con artist (1882–1949)

Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar is an Indian gangster, mob boss, drug lord and narcoterrorist. He is the leader of the organised crime syndicate D-Company, which he founded in Mumbai in the 1970s. Ibrahim is wanted on multiple charges of murder, extortion, targeted killing, drug trafficking and terrorism among others.

Russian fraudster

German impostor (1849-1922)

Brazilian footballer (born 1963)

Charles Sobhraj is a French serial killer, fraudster, and thief whose victims were mainly Western tourists travelling on the hippie trail of South Asia during the 1970s. He is of Sindhi and Vietnamese origin. He was known as the Bikini Killer because of the attire of several of his victims, as well as the Splitting Killer and the Serpent for "his snake-like ability to avoid detection by authorities".

Senegalese footballer

Russian criminal and former deputy of the State Duma (1955-2018)

Dutch Olympic fencer and art dealer-collector, plundered by Nazis because Jewish (1868-1955)

Italian entrepreneur and fraudster (1938-2022)

Italian surgeon

Filipino pastor and religious leader

Malaysian fugitive conman

Belgian politician, scholar, socialite and writer (1945-2018)

German woman con artist, actress and folk singer (1832–1895)

Natwarlal (born Mithilesh Kumar Srivastava; 1912 — 25 July 2009) was an Indian fraudster known for his high-profile crimes and prison escapes, including having supposedly "sold" the Taj Mahal, the Red Fort, the Rashtrapati Bhavan, and the Parliament House of India on multiple occasions. If valued today, these properties would be worth approximately ₹129 billion ($1.4 billion) in total.

Liechtenstein criminal (1743-1785)

Russian legendary thief (1846–1902)

Polish-born British adventurer

Italian priest and alchemist

Swiss-German con man

Amulet Supreme, pseudonym of Carolina Maria Gambia

French fraudster

Belgian offender (1941–2019)

Italian businessman

Indian businessman

German conman

Iranian con artist

Swedish con artist (1817-1885)