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Hello i'm will
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Today's topic is a little lighter
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Let’s talk about collective fraud
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There is such a person who has been deceiving all his life
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The deception that actually fights can be described as the highest point
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You may not believe that
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he even sold the Eiffel Tower in France twice
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This person is the famous super liar in history
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Victor Lustig
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Lustig was born in 1890 in Austro-Hungary
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his father was the mayor of the town
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So，at that time
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He lives in the upper middle class of society
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he is well educated
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and he is a smart boy
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Later, his father sent him to Paris
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France to attend university
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The 19-year-old Lustig has been able to
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use the five languages Czech, German,
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English, French and Italian during his studies in France.
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meanwhile
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He is also obsessed with billiards, bridge and all kinds of gambling
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And came into contact with all kinds of people
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Learned some thousands of playing cards and various tricks
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This made the wise Lustig Mousse start
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He feels that he is born to lie to others
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After leaving school, he started all kinds of tricks
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He is willing to try as long as he can get money
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In order to hide the identity
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He gave himself various aliases
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His favorite name is Victor Lustig
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and this is his most notorious name afterwards
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He began cheating on Atlantic cruises between New York and Paris
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Especially like to cheat rich people of their money
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Various kinds of deceptions are constantly appearing
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At a gambling table, for example
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He is good at playing tricks
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So those rich people are no match for him
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Whoever plays poker with him will only lose
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In addition to
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He also claimed to be the producer of Broadway musicals
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Asking the rich to invest
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Because he has a lot of knowledge
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He can speak five languages
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And he's good at dealing with all kinds of people
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Make the rich people believe in him
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Later,
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He made a kind of machine
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It's called the Romanian Money Box
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This is a small box made of cedar wood
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The exterior appears to have intricate rollers and brass dial
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He began to sell the machine to people
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It claims to be able to reproduce an identical bill every six hours
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It costs $3,000
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Maybe it's money that blinds intelligence
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Many people believed him then
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Think they can buy a cash cow for $3,000
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They can get their money back sooner or later
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A sure bet
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After the victim buys back
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It's usually put in a $100 copy of the largest denominations
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After 6 hours, box did spit out a $100 bill
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Six hours later, another $100 bill came out
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But then
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All box could spit out were white sheets of paper
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When the buyer realized that he had been deceived
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Lustig ran away long ago
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Everything was a well-designed trick
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Just waiting for you to get in
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These scams
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seen from the current point of view
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Also are very seductive and deceptive
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Much less at that time
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However, after listening to the next story, you will find
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Those mentioned doesn't matter at all
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After the First World War
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France was slowly recovering from the war
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In this process, there were various opportunities
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Lustig, who is quite familiar with France
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Would he miss such an opportunity?
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On May 1925
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Lustig arrived in Paris and prepared for big money
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He bought a newspaper on the street
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Then he was attracted by one of the reports
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This report was discussing
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How to repair the Eiffel Tower
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Because repairment would consume a lot of money
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This got the Paris government in trouble
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Lustig saw this news
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Brightened suddenly
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At this moment, he was planning
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A crazy scam
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The Eiffel Tower is a famous building in Paris
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In 1875
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To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution
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and the upcoming World Expo in Paris
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The French government decided
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to build a giant landmark
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After two years of construction, 70,000 tons of steel were consumed
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The tower, which is 320 meters high, was built
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became a spectacle of the time
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As originally envisaged
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after the end of The Paris World Expo
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The tower will be demolished
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But due to his marvelous construction
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At the urging of the people
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The tower was preserved
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Decades had passed
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The Eiffel Tower was in disrepair
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It turned dilapidated
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That's when Lustig received this
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once-in-a-lifetime opportunity
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So he forged the official seal of the French government
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and various documents
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He claimed to be the Deputy Minister of MPT of France
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and then secretly contacted six metal scrap dealers
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He said to them
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The government has decided to tear down the tower
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The 70,000 tons of steel are subject to bidding.
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Driving a rented limo
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he took them for a ride under the tower
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and then drove to the most prestigious luxury hotel in Paris
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A Rosewood Hotel
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Lustig took the six persons to a luxury suite
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and said to them
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Congratulations
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You were selected by the French government to bid
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This is a strictly confidential project
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I hope you don't disclose it
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The people of these six countries have a look.
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It's a limousine and a luxury hotel suite
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The person in front of them is personable and clear thinking
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Talk and behave appropriately
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At first glance, it is a highly educated government official
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Destic went on to say
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Let's not hide it from everyone that we have done research internally
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If you want to repair the Eiffel Tower, the cost is too high
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Has exceeded the budget
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So the higher-level decided to sell it
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But we are worried that the citizens of Paris will not agree
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If they know that they want to demolish
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Will definitely cause an uproar
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So we decided to act quietly
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Wait till everything is finalized
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Raw rice and cooked rice will not work if they don’t agree
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This iron tower was decided to be demolished when it was built
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It’s just that the people strongly opposed it at that time.
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Now this iron tower is already dilapidated
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It's a good time to demolish
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I am secretly carrying out the demolition of the tower on behalf of the government
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The six of you are my carefully selected dealers
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Hope you guys before tomorrow
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Give me the bid price
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Note that this is a state secret
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No one is allowed to reveal the slightest rumors
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The six men believed in what lestig said
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Convinced
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One of them is Andre Besson
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His bid is the highest
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Lestig thought everything was done
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However
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Poisson's wife with a woman's sixth sense
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suspected that there’s something fishy
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and tried to stop Poisson
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Well, Poisson showed his concern to Lestig
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But, the accident
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was a surprise to Lestig
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Crafty, Lestig decided to
make it work for him
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Soon, he arranged to meet Poisson in secret
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He confessed to Poisson that
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He did was a deputy minister
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But not very satisfied with the income
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As for the bid on the Tower
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he has discretion
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The series of LeStig's moves
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is a hint to Poisson that
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he wanted to take bribes
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Though Poisson was nobody special
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after all, he was better-hardened
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He met too many corrupt officials like him
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So he felt that Le Stig's action
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approved that everything
was going well
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So after this meeting,
he dispelled his doubts
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In the end, Lestig not only did
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successfully sold the Eiffel tower
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But also got huge amounts of money
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and achieved additional bribes
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Well, he did made a lot of money
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As soon as he got the money
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he took his assistant, Robert Usher Toby
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fled to Vienna overnight
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After Poisson knew he was deceived,
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He did't call the police
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Because he wasn't clean，too
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And the matter is a shame
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which is too humiliating to speak out
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So he had to suck it up
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The matter passed.
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And nothing happened
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Unexpectedly, after a month
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The bold Lusting returned to Paris
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And prepared to repeat offender
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He used the same method
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To find six mental dealers again
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But this time he was not so lucky
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Someone felt the thing was wrong
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So before the deal is finally reached
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The documents and contracts forged by Lusting
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Were sent to the police station
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However, Lusting was like a cunning fox
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After recognizing the game was up, he ran away
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In the end, the French police did not catch him.
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A few years later
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Lusting carried out a series of scams
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In the United States where he settled
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1930
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He united two associates in Nevada
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Pharmacist Watts and chemistry teacher Tom
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They worked together on the "business" of printing counterfeit money
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And invented a set of money laundering methods
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Unknowingly, every month they can
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put $100,000 of counterfeit banknotes into the market
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Years later
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More and more counterfeit notes have been found in the market
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So the FBI went after it
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They finally locked in on Lustig
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And launched a nationwide manhunt for him
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The FBI didn't find him for years
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In 1935,
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Lestigo's mistress was jealous
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He tipped off his hiding place to the police
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The reason why he is jealous is that
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Lestigo goes out with the lover of Shaw, his chemistry teacher
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Eventually the FBI caught up with Lestigo
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The day before it stops
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He used the sheets as a rope to slip out of the third-story window
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And then disguised as glass
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The cleaner managed to escape in full view of the public
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But the FBI caught him again 27 days later
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The court sentenced him to 20 years in prison
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He's in the Alcatraz Union prison
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The prison on Alcatraz Island
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This prison houses a lot of super-felons
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In 1947,
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Lestig was suffering from pneumonia
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Died in the prison hospital
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The doctor who put an end to his SINS
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Lestick's doctors used 47 different names
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Warlock's passport
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These are just the ones that were counted
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According to the investigation his original name was Robert Miller
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But it turned out to be just another pseudonym for him
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His real name may be known only to himself
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The most memorable of his many pseudonyms
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One of the most notorious
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Victor Lustig
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