Calling himself 'the Phantom', Michaels is a brazen and deluded swindler. His elaborate lies and deceptions began when he was courtinghis wife, with Michaels telling her he was the son of a millionaire cruise line owner and was about to inherit .

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.

Giovanni di Stefano was dubbed ?The Devil?s Advocate? for over a decade of legal work on behalf of notorious clients such SaddamHussein and Slobodan Milosevic. He was first convicted of fraud and false pretense in 1975. Faced with the prospect.

This serial swindler also has the dubious title of being Singapore's biggest ever commercial fraudster - stealing a massive $117 millionfrom four foreign banks. His case rocked Singapore not just for the vast amount of money he stole.

Achilleas Kallakis was known as one of the most audacious characters in the London property market. Born into a modest family of shipworkers, he managed to amass a ?250 million fortune. Kallakis deployed actors, forged paperwork and faked references.

Brian Goldie passes himself off as a qualified former advocate in the High Courts of Scotland. But he has no legal qualifications and instead is a convicted fraudster.

Michael Brown is a convicted fraudster from Scotland. Posing as a highly successful bond dealer, claiming connections with the royal family, Brown swindled around £36m out of his victims.

‘Lord’ Edward Davenport a.k.a. “Fast Eddie” is a property developer and convicted fraudster. He is said to have made £34.5 million through his various frauds, with as many as 51 victims.

Graham Briggs had his first taste of prison in 1995 when he was jailed for 14 months for stealing ?55,000 from a London-basedcompany. The following year, Briggs made headlines again when he posed as a Concorde pilot to woo a former air hostess before.

Born Joseph Hikairo-Barlow, this serial swindler created a complex false persona for himself, convincing people around him that he wasa Tahitian Prince with a massive fortune and connections to the British royal family. Little did they know.

David Nepia Carroll was in his teens when he started stealing from his nephew’s piggy bank to more than £30,000 from his grandmother. He has now been in and out of prison 41 times.

For 20 years John Keady has seduced women from across Britain and Europe to America. But to dismiss this man as a serial womanizer would be a mistake; he is a callous and vicious conman.

Selva Carmichael promised to make stars out of former Big Brother contestants and millionaires out of investors. However, the show was bogus and designed to convince investors to part with their cash.