12. Big Store
We start the list with a classic. The big store scam was featured in The Sting, starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Basically, the scammers set up a brick and mortar shop and relieve the victims of their money. Perhaps the most successful Big Store scam was performed in Nanjing, China in 2014. The scammers set up a fake bank and manage to rake in a whooping 200 million Yuan by promising huge interest rates. That’s more than $30 million. The moral of the story is that if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
