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  • The Fyre Festival: Influencer Marketing Meets Fraud

    The Fyre Festival: Influencer Marketing Meets Fraud
    Aug 13 2026
    Billy McFarland didn’t start with a beach. He started with a story. And in the startup world he came from, story could move money faster than proof.New York’s startup scene rewarded speed, presentation, and charm. It was a place where weak ideas could sound inevitable. McFarland understood that. By the time Fyre Festival took shape, the culture was already primed to confuse confidence with substance.Aurelius and Malik take on this case in full — 5 chapters, 31 minutes, one complete story.Learn more at: https://thefraudarchive.com/fraud/fyre-festival-billy-mcfarland


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    31 Min.
  • Nick Leeson and the Collapse of Barings Bank

    Nick Leeson and the Collapse of Barings Bank
    Aug 12 2026
    Nick Leeson did not look like a man about to destroy Britain’s oldest merchant bank. He looked like a junior trader doing well in a distant office. But the first lie was already inside the numbers, and Barings was still calling it success.Barings Bank was old, respected, and proud of its history. Founded in seventeen sixty-two, it carried the weight of centuries. But by the late nineteen eighties and early nineteen nineties, prestige was not enough. Derivatives were changing the business. Banks wanted profits from faster markets, especially in Asia, and they wanted them without the inconvenience of constant oversight. That appetite created the opening. Barings wanted the upside of modern finance, but it did not build the controls that modern finance demanded.Nick Leeson was born in Watford in nineteen sixty-seven. He came from a working-class English background. He was not born into the bank’s inner circle. He earned his way into the system through ordinary ambition. That matters, because the collapse of Barings was not built by a cartoon villain from the start. It was built by a system that trusted the look of competence more than it trusted the hard work of checking the numbers.Aurelius and Malik take on this case in full — 5 chapters, 31 minutes, one complete story.Learn more at: https://thefraudarchive.com/fraud/barings-bank-nick-leeson


    The Fraud Archive Dialogues is part of The Archive Network by Jonkai Ventures. In every episode, curators Aurelius and Malik take one case of fraud,

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    31 Min.
  • OneCoin: The Crypto That Was Never on a Blockchain

    OneCoin: The Crypto That Was Never on a Blockchain
    Aug 11 2026
    Picture a woman stepping onto a stage, lights blazing, applause thundering, and a promise in her voice: this is your chance to join the future. Most people in the room don't realize what they're really buying isn't a coin, but a story.In the years before OneCoin became a global sensation, Ruja Ignatova was already a master of appearances. Raised in Bulgaria and later educated in Germany, she knew the power of credentials and polish. She held a law degree and had stints in business and consulting, but the real lesson she learned was in persuasion. Technical mastery wasn't what opened doors. It was the confidence to look like you belonged, and the ability to sell belief before explaining any product.Aurelius and Malik take on this case in full — 5 chapters, 33 minutes, one complete story.Learn more at: https://thefraudarchive.com/fraud/onecoin-ruja-ignatova


    The Fraud Archive Dialogues is part of The Archive Network by Jonkai Ventures. In every episode, curators Aurelius and Malik take one case of fraud,

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    33 Min.
  • The Original Con: How Charles Ponzi Invented Modern Fraud

    The Original Con: How Charles Ponzi Invented Modern Fraud
    Aug 10 2026
    Charles Ponzi arrived in Boston with almost nothing, but he carried one thing that mattered more than money. He carried appetite. Appetite for status. Appetite for speed. Appetite for reinvention.And in nineteen nineteen, in a city primed to believe a polished stranger, that appetite would become a business model. Ponzi was born in Lugo, Italy, in eighteen eighty-two. The public record traces a hard path before Boston. He worked as a waiter, a laborer, a clerk, and a bank errand boy. Those were not glamorous jobs, but they taught him something valuable. He learned how institutions look from the bottom.Aurelius and Malik take on this case in full — 5 chapters, 30 minutes, one complete story.Learn more at: https://thefraudarchive.com/fraud/charles-ponzi


    The Fraud Archive Dialogues is part of The Archive Network by Jonkai Ventures. In every episode, curators Aurelius and Malik take one case of fraud,

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    30 Min.
  • Wirecard: The German FinTech That Fooled Everyone

    Wirecard: The German FinTech That Fooled Everyone
    Aug 9 2026
    In Bavaria, a modern fintech quietly promised to change everything. Wirecard’s story started with the future of money, but beneath the surface, something stranger was taking root.Germany’s business world is famous for caution and tradition, but by the middle of the twenty-tens, it was hungry for something new. Wirecard stepped in, offering the future: seamless online payments, cross-border transactions, and a platform that could bring German respectability to the internet age. The company’s offices in Aschheim near Munich looked ordinary. The language was all about margins, platform fees, and digital commerce. No smoke, no mirrors—at least, not at first glance.Aurelius and Malik take on this case in full — 5 chapters, 31 minutes, one complete story.Learn more at: https://thefraudarchive.com/fraud/wirecard


    The Fraud Archive Dialogues is part of The Archive Network by Jonkai Ventures. In every episode, curators Aurelius and Malik take one case of fraud,

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    31 Min.
  • Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room Were Lying

    Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room Were Lying
    Aug 8 2026
    In the beginning, Enron did not look like a crime scene. It looked like the future. But hidden inside that rise was a small, clean lie. And once that lie worked, the rest became possible.In the late nineteen eighties, Enron still fit the old picture of an energy company. It had pipes, contracts, and a business tied to natural gas. Then deregulation changed everything. Markets opened. Traders gained influence. Wall Street began rewarding speed, sophistication, and the promise of cleverness.Aurelius and Malik take on this case in full — 5 chapters, 32 minutes, one complete story.Learn more at: https://thefraudarchive.com/fraud/enron


    The Fraud Archive Dialogues is part of The Archive Network by Jonkai Ventures. In every episode, curators Aurelius and Malik take one case of fraud,

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    32 Min.
  • 1MDB: How a Malaysian Sovereign Fund Was Looted for $4.5 Billion

    1MDB: How a Malaysian Sovereign Fund Was Looted for $4.5 Billion
    Aug 7 2026
    A sovereign fund was supposed to build a nation. Instead, it became the front door to one of the biggest thefts in modern finance. The first clue was not a hidden vault or a masked raid. It was a clean, official promise that sounded almost too respectable to question.1Malaysia Development Berhad, known as 1MDB, was born in two thousand nine with the language of progress wrapped around it. Public capital. National development. Strategic investment. On paper, it looked like the future. But here is the catch. In Malaysia, proximity to power could matter almost as much as law. And 1MDB sat close to the center.Aurelius and Malik take on this case in full — 5 chapters, 33 minutes, one complete story.Learn more at: https://thefraudarchive.com/fraud/1malaysia-development-berhad


    The Fraud Archive Dialogues is part of The Archive Network by Jonkai Ventures. In every episode, curators Aurelius and Malik take one case of fraud,

    deception or financial crime and work through it together — one building the account, the other pressing on what it leaves out.


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    33 Min.
  • FTX: The Fastest Collapse of a Crypto Empire

    FTX: The Fastest Collapse of a Crypto Empire
    Aug 6 2026
    Imagine a company that looks like the future of money. Fast. Clean. Almost frictionless. Now imagine that behind the glow of that promise, customer funds are already moving into places they were never meant to go.That is where the FTX story begins. Not with a loud explosion, but with a small, ordinary breach that would eventually swallow a thirty-two billion dollar empire. Sam Bankman-Fried came out of a very specific financial world. He was shaped by quantitative trading culture, by the post-two thousand eight search for speed, by the idea that software could do what older institutions could not.Aurelius and Malik take on this case in full — 5 chapters, 34 minutes, one complete story.Learn more at: https://thefraudarchive.com/fraud/ftx-sam-bankman-fried


    The Fraud Archive Dialogues is part of The Archive Network by Jonkai Ventures. In every episode, curators Aurelius and Malik take one case of fraud,

    deception or financial crime and work through it together — one building the account, the other pressing on what it leaves out.


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    34 Min.