Exposing the world’s most conniving, creative, and criminally-adept con men, Serial Swindlers goes inside their minds. While their crimes and exploits are a ready-made Hollywood script, their exploits have left a trail of heartache, poverty and destruction.

Titles include:

David Ocean
David Ocean is a serial con artist who has played many ‘catch me if you can’ roles, from lothario to surgeon, leaving a trail of heartache and destruction in his wake. Ocean’s life of crime began with bigamy when he married two women (both called Linda) at the same time. He later faked his own disappearance at sea, pretended to sell non-existent fishing licenses, scammed investors for a fake canoe business and has 'sold' three different yachts that he stole or that never existed. His latest exploits have involved posing as a fake doctor, in order to sell Botox injections and ‘designer vagina' surgery to now horrified victims.

Chia Teck Leng- 'The King of Gamblers'
This serial swindler also has the dubious title of being Singapore's biggest ever commercial fraudster - stealing a massive $117 million from four foreign banks. His case rocked Singapore not just for the vast amount of money he stole, but because it exposed the dark truth of what an obsession with gambling will lead a man to do. He led a double life as a modest family man and as an international gambler with flashy cars and a secret girlfriend half his age before it all came crashing down.

Loizos Michaels – ‘The Phantom’
Calling himself 'the Phantom', Michaels is a brazen and deluded swindler. His elaborate lies and deceptions began when he was courting his wife, with Michaels telling her he was the son of a millionaire cruise line owner and was about to inherit a fortune. That never happened, and nor did any of the many and varied investments he managed to convince his high profile victims to buy into.

Giovanni di Stefano – ‘The Devil's Advocate’
Giovanni di Stefano was dubbed “The Devil’s Advocate” for over a decade of legal work on behalf of notorious clients such Saddam Hussein and Slobodan Milosevic. In fact, di Stefano had no legal qualifications. Di Stefano has a long and creative history of swindling. He was first convicted of fraud and false pretense in 1975. Faced with the prospect of further convictions in the late 1980s, he fled to New Zealand, and ended up in war torn Yugoslavia in 1992, where he befriended and advised Serbian warlords Arkan and Slobodan Milosevic. He's been convicted five times in Ireland and the United Kingdom of fraud and related criminal offenses, earning him a total of 22 years in jail.

Achilleas Kallakis – From 'The Don’ to 'His Excellency’
Achilleas Kallakis was known as one of the most audacious characters in the London property market. Born into a modest family of ship workers, he managed to amass a £250 million fortune. Kallakis deployed actors, forged paperwork and faked references to convince a number of banks that he was a global property tycoon with assets in London and Hong Kong. His international playboy lifestyle came to an end when he was exposed and sentenced to 11 years in prison.

Brian Goldie
Growing up in Scotland, Goldie is thought to have begun his criminal activity at the tender age of 22 when he allegedly stole almost £100,000 from the Royal Bank of Scotland. With the police seeking him for questioning, he left the UK and flew to Australia where he defrauded a large mining company he was working for of more than $417,000. Convicted and sentenced to six years in jail, when he won parole Goldie decided to start a new life of fraud in Thailand. So far he has convinced more than a dozen people to hire him to be their lawyer. Three people are now pursuing him through the Thai courts for money he took under false pretenses.

Michael Brown
Posing as a highly successful  Scottish bond dealer and claiming to be the son of a Lord, Brown swindled around £36 million out of his victims. As his trail of deceit began to unravel, he jumped bail and fled to the Dominican Republic, sparking an international manhunt for his arrest. He was extradited back to the UK in 2012 and later sentenced to seven years in prison.

Edward Davenport – ‘Fast Eddie’
Lord’ Edward Davenport a.k.a. ‘Fast Eddie' is said to have made £34.5 million through his various frauds, with as many as 51 victims. After being convicted of tax offenses in 1990, he started on a career as a property developer. He was the “ringmaster" of a series of advance-fee fraud schemes that defrauded dozens of individuals out of millions of dollars. He was arrested and convicted in September 2011 along with five other defendants, receiving a jail sentence of seven years and eight months.

Graham Briggs
Graham Briggs had his first taste of prison in 1995 when he was jailed for 14 months for stealing £55,000 from a London-based company. The following year, Briggs made headlines again when he posed as a Concorde pilot to woo a former air hostess before fleeing with £25,000 of her money. He spent two and a half years in prison for this crime but that did not deter him from swindling. Upon his release, he set about unleashing the Swan Fund scam on the unsuspecting, gaining investments in his fraudulent scheme worth around £2 million.

Joel Barlow – Tahitian Prince
Born Joseph Hikairo-Barlow, this serial swindler created a complex false persona for himself, convincing people around him that he was a Tahitian Prince with a massive fortune and connections to the British royal family. Little did they know that he was actually ripping off taxpayers through an elaborate accounting fraud at his employer, stealing $16.6 million from the public purse to fund his lavish lifestyle.

David Nepia Carroll
David Carroll is one of New Zealand’s most prolific offenders of all time. He has more than 130 convictions and so far has been in and out of prison 41 times.He started in his teens by stealing more than £30,000 from his grandmother. Carroll played roles like pretending to be the chef for the UK band Cold Play and he told people he worked for US film star Stephanie Powers.

John Keady
For 20 years John Keady has seduced women from across Europe and America. But to dismiss this man as a serial womanizer would be a mistake; he is a callous and vicious conman who is believed to have swindled almost £1 million from his supposed ‘love’ interests. A prison sentence in 2010 was not enough to deter him from committing further fraud and, as soon as he was released, he continued to leave a trail of deceit and emotional damage in his wake.

Selva Carmichael
On the face of it, Selva Carmichael seemed every inch the slick media-mogul, promising to make stars out of Big Brother contestants Lisa Appleton and Mario Marconi as well as millionaires out of investors in his fly-on-the-wall documentary. With convictions dating back to 1996, Selva Carmichael is the consummate serial swindler. From shopping channels where the goods are never delivered to sham property developments in Spain that fleeced backers, Carmichael seemingly enjoys the thrill of the con just as much as the financial return itself.