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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 ...  عرض المزيد

We often hear the term Ponzi scheme without knowing exactly where it comes from. A Ponzi scheme - named after its inventor in 1920s Boston - is a financial arrangement that attracts customers whose investments are used to pay the originators and first members, thus creating a fra ...  عرض المزيد

On this day we recall the Police operation to ensnare prolific conman Victor Lustig.  The ‘Catch Me If You Can’-style manhunt intensified on 11th December, 1928, when Lustig made the mistake of robbing $16,000 from Massachusetts businessman Thomas Kearns, thereby triggering a cha ...  عرض المزيد

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David Chen and Joanna Robinson are the hosts of brand new show Truth vs Hollywood. Launching June 12th, Truth vs Hollywood will take a critical look at the real story behind popular films that are Based on a True Story. From the tragedy of Munich to the fun of Goodfellas, our fil ...  عرض المزيد