Eran Eyal had it all: a trendy New York apartment, a jet-set lifestyle and investors lining up to get in on his million-dollar cryptocurrency start-up, Shopin. But the New York police pounced in 2018, charged him with fraud and packed him off to Rikers Island. As $42 million went up in smoke, the South African entrepreneur was exposed as an audacious fraudster determined to succeed at any cost — even if it meant spinning a web of lies to do so.
