10 Historic Scammers
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Submitted by Lügarshz of Flying-Fez Media:
Oddee.com’s 10 Greatest Imposters in History
For summaries of the work of each of these notorious scammers, click here. For info from Wikipedia, click on each person’s name.
1. Victor Lustig: the Man who sold the Eiffel Tower
2. Frank Abagnale: catch me if you can
3. Charles Ponzi: created the Ponzi Scheme
4. Christopher Rocancourt: the french “Rockefeller”
5. Gregor MacGregor: drew investors to “Poyais”, a fictional country
6. Cassie Chadwick: Andrew Carnegie’s “illegitimate daughter”
7. Ferdinand Demara: improvised successful surgeries as a fake surgeon
8. David Hampton: Six Degrees of Separation from Sidney Poitier
9. Mary Baker: Princess Caraboo from the island of Javasu
10. Milli Vanilli: the pop duo that tricked the world
