Scams and Fraud: The World’s Worst 5 Cases

All of us should be aware of a lot of scams and fraud and so we need the worst 5 cases.  Insider Monkey wrote "Scams and Fraud: The World’s Worst 5 Cases" for you to know what are the strategies that scammers use.

Maybe you’ve paid more than you should have for your products; maybe you’ve bought something online that you never really received. As annoying as such incidents might be, some people have been unfortunate enough to be scammed on a much, much higher level. We would like to present you with a list we have compiled of the 5 biggest scams in history. Let’s take a look; this list has a much more "historical" take then previous coverage of the biggest corporate scandals.

In 1911, Argentinean Eduardo de Valfierno paid a Louvre employee to steal the Mona Lisa for him. Valfierno had no use for the original painting as his plan was to sell various forgeries to art collectors throughout the world. He simply needed the painting to be out of the museum so that everyone would think he was selling the actual Mona Lisa; and it worked. You can see more of scams and fraud if you visit Insider Monkey.