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There are people who have become famous all over the world due to their ability to deceive. They easily cheated not only ordinary citizens, but even famous rich people and leaders of countries.
Today we will consider the most famous swindlers of our time
️Viktor Lustig.
The famous swindler of the 20th century, Count Victor Lusting, who sold the Eiffel Tower.
Lustig endlessly invented scams, had 45 pseudonyms. In the United States alone, Lustig was arrested 50 times, but because of the small evidence base, he was released each time.
Lustig's biggest scam was the sale of the Eiffel Tower. This happened in May 1925, when Lustig read in a French newspaper that the world-famous symbol of Paris was worn out and in need of repair. Victor falsified documents and introduced himself as the head of the Ministry of Post and Telegraph in front of six large businessmen.
He invited businessmen to an expensive restaurant, where over lunch he explained to the audience that the costs of maintaining the tower were so huge that the government decided to demolish it and sell it for scrap at a closed auction. In order not to provoke the anger of the public, which was accustomed to the tower, Lustig persuaded businessmen to keep everything in the strictest confidence.
️Ferdinand Waldo Demara.
At one time he was called "the great impostor." And he was awarded this nickname for a reason. During his life, Ferdinand played a myriad of professions and occupations with great success. And he played so brilliantly that you can't get underneath. Whoever he was - from a monk and teacher to the head of the prison.
The most brilliant reincarnation of Ferdinand can be considered a work as a surgeon. Once he met a surgeon, and communication with him impressed Ferdinand so much that he decided to become a human savior. He treated him aboard the destroyer Cayuga during the Korean War under the name Joseph Kair.
Once, 16 seriously wounded soldiers were brought to him. And Ferdinand had no choice but to operate on them. True, at first he re-read the only book on surgery that he carried with him. The most interesting thing is that he saved all the soldiers.
All the newspapers wrote about the miracle doctor. Then his deception was exposed - the mother of the real Joseph read in the newspaper about a man who was clearly not her son. After being exposed, Ferdinand for a long time could not decide who he wanted to become.
After some time he was accepted into the prison to work as a warden. This happened thanks to a fake psychologist's diploma. In the colony, he was engaged in the re-education of prisoners. And, by the way, he did it very well.
️Arthur Ferguson.
The scammer from Scotland became known after he "sold" the national monuments of England.
Once in Trafalgar Square, he noticed a richly dressed man, spoke to him. In conversation, the visiting American admired the statue of Nelson. Arthur, unexpectedly for himself, introduced himself to the stranger as the official representative of Trafalgar Square.
Arthur quite seriously told the man that in England you can buy any piece of architecture, even the very same column of Nelson. He explained that in Great Britain everything is bad with the economy and the state is desperate for money, and therefore there was a decision to arrange a sale of some architectural structures.
In light of these events, the head of Trafalgar Square can sell the statue of Nelson to an American for as little as £ 6,000. The delighted tourist handed over a check for the announced amount to the false official and the joyful one ran to order a team of assemblers to disassemble the column.
The police took the deceived tourist for a madman and did not open a fraud case. However, after a few weeks, new victims appeared. One of the victims bought Big Ben from some "official" for a thousand pounds, the other made an advance in the amount of two thousand pounds for Buckingham Palace. When all the police in London were thrown in search of a swindler, Ferguson retreated to Paris.
There, in passing, he sold the Eiffel Tower to an American again for scrap. With the help of his machinations, Arthur made a decent fortune and went straight to the abode of honest and naive "americos" who were so easy to cheat.
️ Sergey Mavrodi.
The whole world knows Sergei Mavrodi as the creator of the classic and largest financial pyramid in the history of Russia. In just six months, unprecedented results were achieved: 15 million depositors, share prices rose 127 times.
980 depositors became dollar millionaires in six months of the pyramid operation. By August 1994, MMM controlled up to $ 70 billion.
The MMM company arranged several days of free travel in the Moscow metro. At the time, one such day was worth $ 1 million. In 1994, Mavrodi congratulated the country on the New Year instead of Boris Yeltsin himself.
Immediately after Mavrodi's leak, the authorities seized the company, and 17 trucks with cash seized during searches at the company's offices were taken to an unknown destination.
️ Joseph Whale.
Already in his youth, Weil began to travel around the country and "cut" the naive citizens who came across him constantly. His first "job" was selling worm products, which he made himself.
The young man traveled to farms and used a special remedy for various parasites to breeders of pigs, cows and horses. Then he moved to town and came up with a new doggy scam. It was a very complicated and convoluted intrigue that was guaranteed to bring him $ 200-300 per hour.
True, for this he had to share with his accomplice. With a stable income, Joseph still felt that his potential was not being fully realized. Then a brilliant idea came to his mind, which made him rich and ... famous.
Joseph's most famous case was the fake bank scam that formed the basis of the movie "Scam." Upon learning that the national bank was moving to a new building, Weil immediately rented the empty building and passed it off as a bank. He hired a whole gang of hardened Chicago crooks who inhabited the bank with characters as accomplices.
Everything was like real: the townspeople entered the bank, at the cash desks their money was accepted by imaginary operators and given and taken away cash, there were guards outside, clerks scurried around the hall with papers - and all this under the watchful eye of the manager.
In the meantime, Weil's assistant had already prepared a client - a Chicago multimillionaire who brought with him half a million dollars.
There are people who have become famous all over the world due to their ability to deceive. They easily cheated not only ordinary citizens, but even famous rich people and leaders of countries.
Today we will consider the most famous swindlers of our time
️Viktor Lustig.The famous swindler of the 20th century, Count Victor Lusting, who sold the Eiffel Tower.
Lustig endlessly invented scams, had 45 pseudonyms. In the United States alone, Lustig was arrested 50 times, but because of the small evidence base, he was released each time.
Lustig's biggest scam was the sale of the Eiffel Tower. This happened in May 1925, when Lustig read in a French newspaper that the world-famous symbol of Paris was worn out and in need of repair. Victor falsified documents and introduced himself as the head of the Ministry of Post and Telegraph in front of six large businessmen.
He invited businessmen to an expensive restaurant, where over lunch he explained to the audience that the costs of maintaining the tower were so huge that the government decided to demolish it and sell it for scrap at a closed auction. In order not to provoke the anger of the public, which was accustomed to the tower, Lustig persuaded businessmen to keep everything in the strictest confidence.
️Ferdinand Waldo Demara.At one time he was called "the great impostor." And he was awarded this nickname for a reason. During his life, Ferdinand played a myriad of professions and occupations with great success. And he played so brilliantly that you can't get underneath. Whoever he was - from a monk and teacher to the head of the prison.
The most brilliant reincarnation of Ferdinand can be considered a work as a surgeon. Once he met a surgeon, and communication with him impressed Ferdinand so much that he decided to become a human savior. He treated him aboard the destroyer Cayuga during the Korean War under the name Joseph Kair.
Once, 16 seriously wounded soldiers were brought to him. And Ferdinand had no choice but to operate on them. True, at first he re-read the only book on surgery that he carried with him. The most interesting thing is that he saved all the soldiers.
All the newspapers wrote about the miracle doctor. Then his deception was exposed - the mother of the real Joseph read in the newspaper about a man who was clearly not her son. After being exposed, Ferdinand for a long time could not decide who he wanted to become.
After some time he was accepted into the prison to work as a warden. This happened thanks to a fake psychologist's diploma. In the colony, he was engaged in the re-education of prisoners. And, by the way, he did it very well.
️Arthur Ferguson.The scammer from Scotland became known after he "sold" the national monuments of England.
Once in Trafalgar Square, he noticed a richly dressed man, spoke to him. In conversation, the visiting American admired the statue of Nelson. Arthur, unexpectedly for himself, introduced himself to the stranger as the official representative of Trafalgar Square.
Arthur quite seriously told the man that in England you can buy any piece of architecture, even the very same column of Nelson. He explained that in Great Britain everything is bad with the economy and the state is desperate for money, and therefore there was a decision to arrange a sale of some architectural structures.
In light of these events, the head of Trafalgar Square can sell the statue of Nelson to an American for as little as £ 6,000. The delighted tourist handed over a check for the announced amount to the false official and the joyful one ran to order a team of assemblers to disassemble the column.
The police took the deceived tourist for a madman and did not open a fraud case. However, after a few weeks, new victims appeared. One of the victims bought Big Ben from some "official" for a thousand pounds, the other made an advance in the amount of two thousand pounds for Buckingham Palace. When all the police in London were thrown in search of a swindler, Ferguson retreated to Paris.
There, in passing, he sold the Eiffel Tower to an American again for scrap. With the help of his machinations, Arthur made a decent fortune and went straight to the abode of honest and naive "americos" who were so easy to cheat.
️ Sergey Mavrodi.The whole world knows Sergei Mavrodi as the creator of the classic and largest financial pyramid in the history of Russia. In just six months, unprecedented results were achieved: 15 million depositors, share prices rose 127 times.
980 depositors became dollar millionaires in six months of the pyramid operation. By August 1994, MMM controlled up to $ 70 billion.
The MMM company arranged several days of free travel in the Moscow metro. At the time, one such day was worth $ 1 million. In 1994, Mavrodi congratulated the country on the New Year instead of Boris Yeltsin himself.
Immediately after Mavrodi's leak, the authorities seized the company, and 17 trucks with cash seized during searches at the company's offices were taken to an unknown destination.
️ Joseph Whale.Already in his youth, Weil began to travel around the country and "cut" the naive citizens who came across him constantly. His first "job" was selling worm products, which he made himself.
The young man traveled to farms and used a special remedy for various parasites to breeders of pigs, cows and horses. Then he moved to town and came up with a new doggy scam. It was a very complicated and convoluted intrigue that was guaranteed to bring him $ 200-300 per hour.
True, for this he had to share with his accomplice. With a stable income, Joseph still felt that his potential was not being fully realized. Then a brilliant idea came to his mind, which made him rich and ... famous.
Joseph's most famous case was the fake bank scam that formed the basis of the movie "Scam." Upon learning that the national bank was moving to a new building, Weil immediately rented the empty building and passed it off as a bank. He hired a whole gang of hardened Chicago crooks who inhabited the bank with characters as accomplices.
Everything was like real: the townspeople entered the bank, at the cash desks their money was accepted by imaginary operators and given and taken away cash, there were guards outside, clerks scurried around the hall with papers - and all this under the watchful eye of the manager.
In the meantime, Weil's assistant had already prepared a client - a Chicago multimillionaire who brought with him half a million dollars.
