Matthew Cox

Bio

Matthew B. Cox is a former-licensed mortgage broker and brokerage business owner. He is a nationally recognized expert on white collar crimes, specifically, the creation of synthetic identities, the fraudulent acquisition of credit cards, personal loans, and mortgages, in addition to real-estate scams. He has consulted with both the FBI and the U.S. Secret Service, and, he is also a former-federal inmate.

Mr. Cox’s criminal case received national media attention after he used forgeries, combined with stolen and synthetic identities to bilk America's biggest banks out of an estimated $55 million. Despite numerous encounters with bank security, state and federal authorities, Mr. Cox narrowly, and quite luckily, avoided capture for nearly a decade. Eventually he topped the Secret Service's most wanted list, and led the U.S. Marshals, FBI, and the Secret Service on a three-year chase, while jet-setting around the world, and, of course, he continued to commit fraud.

Mr. Cox has been declared, “one of the most prolific mortgage fraud con artists of all time,” by CNBC's American Greed. Bloomberg Businessweek called him, “the mortgage industry's worst nightmare,” while Dateline NBC described Mr. Cox as, “a gifted forger and silver-tongued liar.” The Scotsman’s Guide revealed that, “a minimum of $40 million in fraudulent mortgages flowed through Mr. Cox's brokerage business during his tenure.”

​Mr. Cox has a Bachelor’s of Arts from the University of South Florida, giving him a unique expertise in graphite, print making, graphic design, and, as it turns out, forgery. He is a published author of several popular true crime books, including: Shark in the Housing Pool, Once a Gun Runner, Generation Oxy, Bent, and It’s Insanity.  Mr. Cox now lives in Tampa, Florida.