02 - Gilbert Chikli, the fake defense minister - Legendary Crooks, True Stories

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03 - Wolfgang Beltracchi, the greatest contemporary forger - Legendary Crooks, True Stories

The history of art has known many stories of forgers, and even today some manage to deceive the authentication techniques. According to some of them, their best accomplice is the greed of art dealers, more than their credulity. What is the limit between imitation and counterfeit? ...  Show more

04 - Victor Lustig, the man who sold the Eiffel Tower - Legendary Crooks, True Stories

It is not a question of a salesman on the sly. In the 1920s, Victor Lustig really wanted to sell THE Eiffel Tower. Born in 1890 in Central Europe to a bourgeois family, the young man was a brilliant schoolboy, multilingual, but gradually turned to crime and scams, especially card ...  Show more

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