Schlësselwuert Bank Fraud

Rapper and host Remy Ma profiles ordinary people who reveal how they got mixed up in criminal acts, from bank robberies to jewelry heists, and share their road to redemption in this true crime series.

Louise Evans is a single mother who works as a customer advisor for big bucks investors at a slick, pin-striped bank. On a night out with her best friend Anna she's introduced to Anna's slippery new boyfriend Phillip. Phillip makes Louise an indecent proposal: accept a briefcase full of money in return for helping him to defraud one of the bank’s richest clients.

On January 24, 2008, Société Générale, one of the largest French banks, caused an earthquake by announcing a loss of 4.9 billion euros, linked to fraud by one of its traders, then unknown. From the initial shock to the media-judicial saga that followed, the series "Kerviel: a trader, 50 billion" retraces in 4 episodes of 45 minutes the key events of this story that has become a symbol of the excesses of finance.

June Clarke loses the money from the sale of her house to fraudsters and attends a support group for victims of such scams where she meets old school mate Des Grigsby. He persuades her to take a job caring for the mother of respected businessman Kirk Wiley, who he suspects is involved in the criminal enterprise that targeted both of them.

While scams have always been around, the internet means the number of people falling for them is rising exponentially. Nigel Latta shows us different types of scams and the specific traits that make us vulnerable to being ripped off!