Ross Ulbricht known as "Dread Pirate Roberts" was a young American prodigy who was under 30 when in 2011 he created the star darknet market website: "Silk Road". The site immediately became a sort of Amazon for the underground economy.

In 2009 he was one of the world's most influential bankers. The Texan's fortune was estimated to be around 2.2 billion dollars. Nothing could have led anyone to imagine that he was at the time suspected of having pulled together a Ponzi scheme.

In June 2009, the FBI issued an arrest warrant for this 47 years old man who kidnapped his own daughter. After an abnormal arrest, the FBI had a hard time sorting out the truth from the lies among the seven aliases of Christian Gerhartsreister, one of America's greatest con men.

In just a few months a young unemployed man of 24, became the most detested man on the Internet. His crime: he created isanyoneup.com, the first website dedicated to "revenge porn".

A 31-year-old man born in Chenôve, near Dijon, is the focus of all sorts of fantasies on the internet. Arrested in Tokyo, Japan, in September 2015, he was suspected of being behind the disappearance of hundreds of millions of dollars in Bitcoin virtual currency.