Victor Luistig 1890 was born in Bohemia, Czechoslovakia. He is glib, charming and proficient in many languages, and is considered to be the most confident and talented liar. I can't believe I sold the Eiffel Tower by trickery.
At first, he derailed on an ocean tanker between Paris and new york. The first scam is the "printing machine". He sold people a machine that can print a hundred-dollar bill in six hours, and the deceived bought the machine at a high price of 30 thousand dollars. However, this machine will only produce two hundred-dollar bills in the next 12 hours. After time, there is only a pile of white paper left. By the time the deceived person realized that he had been cheated, Luistig had already run away.
1925, the event of "selling the Eiffel Tower" broke out. Luistig disguised himself as a government worker and invited six scrap buyers to discuss the deal. The excuse is that the maintenance cost of the tower is high, and the French government does not want to continue the maintenance. Ironically, a foolish buyer believed and subdued a large sum of money to buy it. After receiving the money, Luistig immediately fled to Vienna by train. Later, Luistig pretended to be upright, honest and treated money like dirt, and defrauded the gangster Al Capone's trust and got a reward of $5,000. 1907, Luistig went to the United States to continue cheating, but was finally arrested for forgery.
Frank Abagnale
Frank Abagnale, the prototype of the film Hide and Seek, once defrauded millions of dollars in many countries. In two years, he disguised as an American Pan Am pilot and enjoyed a scheduled flight around the world. Pretending to be a pediatrician for a few months; He also defrauded Harvard University for a law diploma, passed the bar exam, and got an excellent job in the Louisiana Department of Justice.
Finally, he was arrested by the French police in 1969, and 12 countries (which had cheated in these countries) requested extradition. His prison life began. After two days of trial, he is now serving half a year in a French prison. Prison life made him shudder and he never wanted to go through it again. After extradition to Sweden. When he was tried for forgery, his lawyer Banhu tried to exonerate him, but later the charge changed from forgery to fraud. Six months and a few weeks later, he was transferred to Italy to serve his sentence. Finally, in the United States, many frauds were convicted 12.
Charles Ponzi
Many swindlers get their inspiration from an Italian immigrant named Charles Ponzi. Madoff is no exception. Ponzi is short and pithy. This guy, who is only 157 cm (5 feet 2 inches) tall, quickly accumulated a wealth of150,000 dollars in the eight months of 1920. He convinced thousands of Bostonians that he could help them make quick money. Ponzi scheme was so successful that his name was later used to name this form of fraud-paying investors' money yesterday with investors' money today, and there was no "Ponzi scheme" behind the actual investment.
The core idea of Ponzi scheme may come from a very successful scheme at the end of 19, which was called William "520%" Miller. Miller is a young bookkeeper named Franklin Consortium in Brooklyn, new york. 1899, he promised investors a high interest income of 10% per week, which created a precedent for investors to reinvest interest income, and the fooled investors invested 60%. Twenty years later, before the Ponzi scheme was exposed, someone interviewed Miller and found that Ponzi's methods were strikingly similar to Miller's, but Ponzi was more famous because Ponzi caused Miller at least seven times the loss. A few days later, the inside story of Ponzi scheme was completely exposed.
Although Ponzi is not the first person to cheat in this way, his methods are amazing. He is a charming liar, the ultimate big liar.
Christopher Rocancourt
Christopher Rocancourt sold assets that did not belong to him at a high price of $654.38+400,000. Later, he came to America, posing as a filmmaker, former boxing champion and venture capitalist.
He often abuses the names of various celebrities, such as "his mother" sophia loren, "uncle" Oscar de la renta, and so on. Later, she married supermodel Pia Reyes and had a son. I lived with phillip rourke for a while and persuaded the actor Jean-Claude Van Damme to make the next film.
The most admirable thing is that there are many dazzling beauties around him. Besides Pia Reyes, she stayed with Rhonda Lei Deer for six months and lied that she was the son of a French nobleman and countess. He was extradited to new york in March 2002, charged with 19 counts of theft, grand theft, smuggling, bribery, perjury and fraud, and fined $9 million. It is necessary to compensate the victim for 654.38 yuan +0.2 million yuan, with a fixed-term imprisonment of five years. The Swiss police suspected that he was involved in a large-scale jewelry theft and banned him from appearing in Switzerland before 20 16.
Gregor Macgregor
Gregor McGregor, Scottish soldier, adventurer and colonist. Struggle for the war of independence in South America. He is also a shrewd liar.
1820 After returning to England, he called himself "Boyais", the owner of a fictional country, and carefully produced a guidebook. This book describes the geographical environment and rich natural resources on the island. His clever deception attracted many investors and colonists to this island country, and groups of people were deceived. Even in the end, he made a constitution and made himself the master of this country. After being tried for fraud, the swindler is still selling this vacant lot to European aristocrats. 1820 After returning to England, he called himself "Boyais", the owner of a fictional country, and carefully produced a guidebook. This book describes the environment and rich natural resources on the island. His wonderful deception sucks.