When a smooth-talking businessman came to a working-class Australian suburb his promises of a better life were intoxicating.
Hundreds of investors believed him and bought shares in the mining exploration company he spruiked.
Instead, almost all the battlers lost their hard-earned cash, for some their entire life savings.
Four Corners reporter Caro Meldrum-Hanna goes in pursuit of the elusive businessman and the missing money that people invested in his business, obtaining hundreds of internal company documents.
