Christopher W. Burns disappeared on September 25, 2020, the day before he was supposed to hand documents to the SEC. Six years later, the FBI raised the reward to $150,000 and put him on a brand new list.
A Calgary realtor sold bridge loans for real estate deals that never existed. Four years later, Alberta's regulator cut the largest assurance fund cheque in its forty-year history. It covered less than half the loss.
For four months in 2022, a Telegram-promoted app called Global Media paid Indians small amounts to watch advertisements. Then it disappeared with roughly ₹45.33 crore (about $5.4M USD), and the people running it had Cambodian and Malaysian phone numbers.