The world is full of scammers and con artists who are great at playing tricks on people. Some of their victims are too trusting, some are too gullible. But sometimes even the best of us can fall for a scammer who has done everything in their power to convince us of their legitimacy. If someone says all the right words and has all the necessary credentials, who are we to doubt them? The problem is that these credentials are fake and cause serious chaos.
10. Rogue pilots in Pakistan
In 2020, a plane crash in Pakistan killed 97 people. As part of the investigation into the cause of the crash, the airline began investigating all of its pilots and discovered some truly heartbreaking statistics. About a third of all Pakistan International Airlines pilots were complete frauds. They had fake licenses and weren’t flying planes.
The investigation found that 262 pilots either never took the pilot's exam, but instead paid someone else to take it for them, or cheated in some other way. As a result, 150 pilots were detained.
A fatal crash in 2020 was the result of pilot error, although no one has specifically said whether the pilots on board had real licenses or not. What was known was that air traffic controllers told them three times that they were too high, but the pilots did not listen, and when they tried to land, they did not release the landing gear. Only two people survived.
This was not the first time the issue had arisen in Pakistan, as a pilot had caused an accident two years ago and the licence he had issued had a public holiday date on it, which immediately exposed it as counterfeit .
9. British eye surgeon John Taylor
English surgeon John Taylor lived in the 1700s, and his main claim to fame is that as an oculist, or eye surgeon, he was able to treat famous composers George Frederic Handel and Johann Sebastian Bach. He didn't treat them well, mind you, but he treated you.
After a brief medical training as a young man, Taylor opened a clinic in his hometown and did so poorly that his patients burned it to the ground and attacked him. After that, he went on his way, received additional education in at least four different schools, and managed to speak enough to become the king's eye doctor.
As his reputation grew, he traveled from town to town performing pubic operations and then leaving before people had even taken off their bandages. By all accounts, his area of expertise was more quackery than any real cure, but he was a good talker and had an impressive pedigree that made people trust him.
His client list grew, and he eventually treated Bach, who was steadily losing his sight, possibly as a result of diabetes. Taylor immediately blinded him, but he died just four months later, possibly from a post-operative infection. When he moved on to Handel, he used a needle to poke him in the eye and push his cataracts back so he could see through them. That was the idea, anyway. It didn't work. And none of it was done with anesthesia or antibiotics, of course, because they didn't exist yet.
Ironically, Taylor also began to lose his sight, underwent surgery, and eventually became completely blind.
8. Fake Dark Purple
If you're a fan of classic rock, you know the band Deep Purple, whose most famous song is arguably the hit "Smoke on the Water." The band formed in the 1960s and were arguably one of the fathers of modern heavy metal. But they also had two for a short period of time, which led to riots from fans who didn't like the confusion.
A man named Rod Evans was the lead singer of Deep Purple when the band got together and auditioned singers to find the perfect frontman. He was gone within a year. The band's name was registered in the UK, and they even set up a company under that name in 1971. But in 1980, another band registered the name Deep Purple as a trademark in the US. Rod Evans was in the band, but the rest of the musicians were actually fromSteppenwolf counterfeits .
The fake Deep Purple was created by a management company that just wanted to cash in on the name. Fans didn't know they were getting a fake Deep Purple, and when the band took the stage in Texas, the crowd threw bottles at them and the show ended after 40 minutes. Things got worse later, with some concertsended in riots The scheme came to an end when the real Deep Purple got wind of it and sued Evans for $672,000.
7. Fake Cop Doug Smith
You've probably heard stories about people, pretending to be police officers . This actually happens quite often and usually takes the form of someone making a traffic stop. In these cases, it's the average Joe, acting alone and trying to fool the public into thinking he's a cop. Much more unusual is what Doug Smith did.
Douglas J. Smith was hired as a police captain inRobbins, Illinois By that point, the city had endured an almost unbelievable level of police incompetence and corruption. The previous chief had resigned after being arrested for drunk driving. Sheriffs had investigated the city because there were so few crime reports and found evidence lockers full of unmarked guns and unprocessed rape kits dating back decades. Smith was supposed to fix it. But he didn’t.
Smith faked his credentials to get the job. Not only that, the badge he presented, supposedly from his job in Los Angeles, was actually a badge belonging to the character Joe Friday from the show Dragnet. He was fired three months later after it was discovered that he had never worked as a police officer at any of the previous jobs he had applied for.
6. Fake forensic psychologist
Psychologists and forensic experts are the main characters of court TV series and films. You can see them in the series "Law and Order" every two weeks. They are also valuable witnesses in real life, provided they are who they say they are. Jean Morrison was called by the courts to testify as a forensic psychologist during 27 years old He was a fraudster and bought his credentials through the mail in 1977.
Over the years, Morrison has received £250,000 from the government to work on cases on their behalf. assigned part of the work real experts, and then took credit for it by charging more money. He even insisted on being called as a doctor during the trial after he was caught.
Because of his lack of real experience, the courts had to go back and review about 700 cases.
5. Fake lawyer from Australia
Australian authorities have warned Dennis Jensen that he faces an extended prison sentence if he continues to pose as a lawyer. He has already been convicted three months . This was because he advised a client accused of rape to contact the alleged victim despite a ban on it. His terrible legal advice, since he is not a lawyer, brought upon his client additional charges .
Fake advocacy is a new career path for Jensen, who previously made headlines as a fake oncologist whose patient died of ovarian cancer because he also had no medical training. He gave her a caustic and illegal ointment to get rid of the cancer that had caused serious damage to her stomach.
4. Fake surgeon
Unfortunately, fake stories about doctors are not that rare, but India's Om Pal is a next-level scam. He stole a real doctor's ID and worked as a doctor for an entire decade At the time, he was performing surgeries despite not having the qualifications to do so. He said he performed 70,000 His medical training was as a paramedic.
By a strange coincidence, the fraud came to light when someone tried to extort money from him charges of fraud and he told the police about it.
3. Jean-Claude Romand, the fake doctor-killer
Some people will lie, and then, in an attempt to cover it up, they will lie some more. This can get out of hand, and in many cases the liar will be caught and suffer some personal or professional consequences. But a small percentage of these people spiral even lower. When lying isn't enough, they resort to violence to hide the truth at any cost.
Jean-Claude Roman claimed to be a doctor, but he wasn't. He spent 18 years living that lie, pretending to work for World Health Organization He made money by deceiving friends and family with fake investments.
In reality, Roman attended medical school, but never passed his first-year exams. Instead, he repeated his first year 12 times. When his lie was about to be exposed, Romand began kill He killed his wife and then made breakfast for the kids and watched a cartoon with them , before killing them too. He then went to his parents' house and killed them, taking out anyone who could expose him as a liar. He even killed his parents' dog.
He attempted to commit suicide in a fire, but was rescued and later convicted of the murders.
2. Missionary Rene Bach
The desire for charity and altruism may not be something that enough people have, and the world would be a better place if more of us helped each other. However, you need to know how to help people before you try, and Renee Bach missed that part of the equation.
Bach was a missionary who, at just 19, traveled to Uganda to help children there after doing missionary work in high school. She started a charity called Serving His Children in a rented house in a place called Jinja. Soon she was serving up to 1,000 hot meals to local children twice a week. But somewhere along the way, she went from feeding the hungry to treating them.
Locals say Bach was in in a white lab coat and with a stethoscope. Parents brought sick and emaciated children to her for treatment, and she accepted them, despite the fact that she had no medical education. Every week were dying children .
Bach wrote on her blog about the children's treatments, including IVs and oxygen. There was no question that she had taken over their medical care. Ultimately, 105 children died, and some parents sued Bach for misrepresenting herself, leading to the children's deaths. She settled the case , paying $9,500 to each of the two mothers without admitting any liability.
1. Annie Dookhan, Fraud Lab Technician
In 2017, Massachusetts courts had to overturn more than 21,000 drug-related convictions , thanks to Annie Dookhan. Dookhan worked as a lab technician at the William A. Hinton State Laboratory Institute, where she falsified lab results, forged signatures, and fabricated evidence, apparently simply to improve her overall standing as the best lab technician in the lab. Her falsified records resulted in all convictions being expunged.
Colleagues discovered that she had been padding her resume, claiming that She does not have a master's degree. She deleted the lies after she was caught, but then put them back. Ironically, Dookhan actually had the necessary skills to do her job, as the education she had was adequate. But something compelled her to lie and go beyond reason. She spent three years in prison for her troubles.
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