True stories of fraud · Films · Books · Podcast
Paper empires.
Real collapses.
Every fraud is a story someone wanted to believe.
From Charles Ponzi to Wirecard, FRAUD-LEAKS tells the great financial frauds as case files — the scheme, the people, the red flags everyone missed, and the rules written afterwards. Animated, in English, on YouTube — and now available as a podcast.
FRAUD-LEAKS · THE PODCAST
The Mechanics of Deception.
True stories of fraud, reconstructed from the inside: the mechanism, the warning signs and the control failures that allowed the story to survive.
EPISODE 01 · BERNIE MADOFF
The Mechanics of Deception
How could a fraud of this scale survive for so long? Follow the structure, the credibility, the warning signs and the failures behind the Madoff scheme.
LEARN-LEAKS · PODCAST
Episode 01 — The Messenger
Communication for Control Functions — how to say what nobody wants to hear. A podcast companion designed to take the learning beyond the slides.
The films
Choose your fraud.
Long case files for the big stories, five-minute versions when you are in a hurry, and the “Back to the Fraud” summer shorts. Every episode opens on YouTube.
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Case files · Ponzi scheme · United StatesVertigoThe Madoff spiral
21:32
Case files · Ponzi scheme · 1920The Original PonziA fine mess in Boston
19:22
Case files · Banking · 1972–1991BCCIBank of Crooks & Cartoons International
15:22
Case files · Family office · 2021The Archegos FileFRAUD-LEAKS #1
13:13
Case files · Supply-chain finance · 2021Green ParkThe Greensill story
9:47
Case files · Money launderingThe Spin CyclePart 1 — A classic money-laundering scheme
5:11
Case files · Money launderingThe Spin CyclePart 2 — The client
7:12
Case files · Leverage · 1998LTCMThe hedge fund that almost sank the financial system
5:12
Case files · CEO fraudPresident FraudA FRAUD-LEAKS short
3:16
Case files · DiversionDead LettersDistribution diversion — exposing the missing post trap
2:41
Case files · TypologyMoney MulesA FRAUD-LEAKS short
5:31
In 5 minutes · Rogue trading · 2008Société Générale in 5 minutesThe €49.9 billion position
5:31
In 5 minutes · Sovereign fund · Malaysia1MDB in 5 minutesThe Wolf of Wall Street’s most expensive sponsor
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In 5 minutes · Ponzi schemeMadoff in 5 minutesThe largest Ponzi scheme in history
5:31
In 5 minutes · VAT carousel · Carbon creditsCarbon fraud in 5 minutesThe green scam that cost billions
4:00
In 5 minutes · Supply-chain financeGreensill Capital in 5 minutesThe collapse that shook the banks
5:16
In 5 minutes · Total return swaps · 2021ArchegosThe invisible leverage
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In 5 minutes · BankingBCCI in 3 minutes 37The summary
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Back to the Fraud · Boston · 1920Charles PonziThe scheme that paid early investors
2:59
Back to the Fraud · Singapore · 1995Barings BankThe 88888 anomaly
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Back to the Fraud · Italy · 2003ParmalatThe bank account that wasn’t there
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Back to the Fraud · Germany · 2020WirecardThe phantom fund
Shorts · 30 episodesThe Laundromat
Follow the mechanism in sixteen seconds at a time — loan-backs, layering, underground banking, the gatekeeper, asset recovery. Thirty shorts, one scheme each.
Watch the shorts →FRAUD-LEAKS — The Book
The films, on paper.
The same case files, written out in full: thirty-six frauds across two volumes, each with the scheme, the people, the red flags and the rules that followed. By Sylvain Aubry — hardcover and Kindle, on Amazon.
THE BOOKVolume ITwenty-four frauds that shaped finance
FRAUD-LEAKS — THE BOOK · Volume I
Twenty-four frauds that shaped finance
Twenty-four case files, from the phantom kingdom of Poyais to the great frauds of the twentieth century. Each one told the same way: the scheme, the people, the red flags everyone missed — and the rules written afterwards.
- 24 chapters
- Hardcover 7 × 10 in, full colour
- Also on Kindle
- In English
THE BOOKVolume IIFrom Crazy Eddie to FTX
FRAUD-LEAKS — THE BOOK · Volume II
From Crazy Eddie to FTX
Twelve modern collapses: Crazy Eddie, BCCI, Barings, Bre-X, Enron, WorldCom, Parmalat, Madoff, Satyam, Wirecard, Theranos and FTX.
- 12 chapters
- Hardcover 7 × 10 in
- Also on Kindle
- In English
Go further
Same stories, other formats.
The Laundromat · Shorts
The final three files.
The collection now reaches episode 30. Watch the latest three, or explore the series on the channel.
