Sam Bankman-Fried: The FTX Crypto Fraud That Wasn't Quite a Ponzi Scheme

Podcast: Scams, Hacks and Frauds: Protecting your family from Internet Scams, Con Artists and Cybercrime · Cee | Host of Scams, Hacks and Frauds.

Opublikowano: 2026-10-26

Tell us your story here! Welcome to Scams, Hacks, and Frauds, where we retell tales of true crime fraudsters and scams. This week we're looking at Sam Bankman-Fried, the crypto wunderkind whose FTX exchange collapsed in November 2022, leaving more than a million customers unable to get their money out. The son of two Stanford law professors, SBF went from Bitcoin arbitrage to running one of the world's biggest crypto exchanges, with Super Bowl ads, celebrity endorsements and a penthouse in the Bahamas. Behind the scenes, his hedge fund Alameda Research had a secret overdraft on...