SCAM

Seung-Woo Yang entered the universe of the Korean Yakuza in his teens. A personal tragedy made him start photographing the world, to cement his memories with his friends.

What seemed like the career opportunity of a lifetime turned into a dangerous situation.

It was a scam based on extortion... and emotion.

This second-generation immigrant, and college student, was the perfect victim.

In a world where likes and fame can be bought and the facade of Instagram reigns supreme, VICE meets some of the legit — and the not-so-legit — players that cater luxury car rentals to the biggest rappers, athletes, and celebrities of the moment.

VICE met up with a full-time scammer for a look inside the shady, lucrative world of stealing credit card info on the dark web.

Yelper exposes a restaurant trying to pass off Popeyes chicken as its own.

In the midst of the UK's biggest ever housing crisis, criminal opportunists have taken advantage of social housing by appropriating council houses for a wide variety of criminal enterprise.

VICE meets Matthew Lesko, the guy who has written more than twenty books telling people how to get money from the US government.