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Hello i'm will

Today's topic is a little lighter

Let’s talk about collective fraud

There is such a person who has been deceiving all his life

The deception that actually fights can be described as the highest point

You may not believe that

he even sold the Eiffel Tower in France twice

This person is the famous super liar in history

Victor Lustig

Lustig was born in 1890 in Austro-Hungary

his father was the mayor of the town

So，at that time He lives in the upper middle class of society

he is well educated

and he is a smart boy

Later, his father sent him to Paris

France to attend university

The 19-year-old Lustig has been able to

use the five languages Czech, German,

English, French and Italian during his studies in France.

meanwhile

He is also obsessed with billiards, bridge and all kinds of gambling

And came into contact with all kinds of people

Learned some thousands of playing cards and various tricks

This made the wise Lustig Mousse start

He feels that he is born to lie to others

After leaving school, he started all kinds of tricks

He is willing to try as long as he can get money

In order to hide the identity

He gave himself various aliases

His favorite name is Victor Lustig

and this is his most notorious name afterwards He began cheating on Atlantic cruises between New York and Paris

Especially like to cheat rich people of their money

Various kinds of deceptions are constantly appearing

At a gambling table, for example

He is good at playing tricks

So those rich people are no match for him

Whoever plays poker with him will only lose

In addition to

He also claimed to be the producer of Broadway musicals

Asking the rich to invest

Because he has a lot of knowledge

He can speak five languages

And he's good at dealing with all kinds of people

Make the rich people believe in him

Later,

He made a kind of machine

It's called the Romanian Money Box

This is a small box made of cedar wood

The exterior appears to have intricate rollers and brass dial

He began to sell the machine to people

It claims to be able to reproduce an identical bill every six hours

It costs $3,000

Maybe it's money that blinds intelligence

Many people believed him then

Think they can buy a cash cow for $3,000

They can get their money back sooner or later

A sure bet

After the victim buys back

It's usually put in a $100 copy of the largest denominations

After 6 hours, box did spit out a $100 bill

Six hours later, another $100 bill came out

But then

All box could spit out were white sheets of paper

When the buyer realized that he had been deceived

Lustig ran away long ago

Everything was a well-designed trick

Just waiting for you to get in

These scams

seen from the current point of view

Also are very seductive and deceptive

Much less at that time

However, after listening to the next story, you will find

Those mentioned doesn't matter at all

After the First World War

France was slowly recovering from the war

In this process, there were various opportunities

Lustig, who is quite familiar with France

Would he miss such an opportunity?

On May 1925

Lustig arrived in Paris and prepared for big money

He bought a newspaper on the street

Then he was attracted by one of the reports

This report was discussing

How to repair the Eiffel Tower

Because repairment would consume a lot of money

This got the Paris government in trouble

Lustig saw this news

Brightened suddenly

At this moment, he was planning

A crazy scam

The Eiffel Tower is a famous building in Paris

In 1875

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution

and the upcoming World Expo in Paris

The French government decided

to build a giant landmark

After two years of construction, 70,000 tons of steel were consumed

The tower, which is 320 meters high, was built

became a spectacle of the time

As originally envisaged

after the end of The Paris World Expo

The tower will be demolished

But due to his marvelous construction

At the urging of the people

The tower was preserved

Decades had passed

The Eiffel Tower was in disrepair

It turned dilapidated

That's when Lustig received this

once-in-a-lifetime opportunity

So he forged the official seal of the French government

and various documents

He claimed to be the Deputy Minister of MPT of France

and then secretly contacted six metal scrap dealers

He said to them

The government has decided to tear down the tower

The 70,000 tons of steel are subject to bidding.

Driving a rented limo

he took them for a ride under the tower

and then drove to the most prestigious luxury hotel in Paris

A Rosewood Hotel

Lustig took the six persons to a luxury suite

and said to them

Congratulations

You were selected by the French government to bid

This is a strictly confidential project

I hope you don't disclose it

The people of these six countries have a look.

It's a limousine and a luxury hotel suite

The person in front of them is personable and clear thinking

Talk and behave appropriately

At first glance, it is a highly educated government official

Destic went on to say

Let's not hide it from everyone that we have done research internally

If you want to repair the Eiffel Tower, the cost is too high

Has exceeded the budget

So the higher-level decided to sell it

But we are worried that the citizens of Paris will not agree

If they know that they want to demolish

Will definitely cause an uproar

So we decided to act quietly

Wait till everything is finalized

Raw rice and cooked rice will not work if they don’t agree

This iron tower was decided to be demolished when it was built

It’s just that the people strongly opposed it at that time.

Now this iron tower is already dilapidated

It's a good time to demolish

I am secretly carrying out the demolition of the tower on behalf of the government

The six of you are my carefully selected dealers

Hope you guys before tomorrow

Give me the bid price

Note that this is a state secret

No one is allowed to reveal the slightest rumors

The six men believed in what lestig said

Convinced

One of them is Andre Besson

His bid is the highest

Lestig thought everything was done

However

Poisson's wife with a woman's sixth sense

suspected that there’s something fishy

and tried to stop Poisson

Well, Poisson showed his concern to Lestig

But, the accident

was a surprise to Lestig

Crafty, Lestig decided to make it work for him

Soon, he arranged to meet Poisson in secret

He confessed to Poisson that

He did was a deputy minister

But not very satisfied with the income

As for the bid on the Tower

he has discretion

The series of LeStig's moves

is a hint to Poisson that

he wanted to take bribes

Though Poisson was nobody special

after all, he was better-hardened

He met too many corrupt officials like him

So he felt that Le Stig's action

approved that everything was going well

So after this meeting, he dispelled his doubts

In the end, Lestig not only did

successfully sold the Eiffel tower

But also got huge amounts of money

and achieved additional bribes

Well, he did made a lot of money

As soon as he got the money

he took his assistant, Robert Usher Toby

fled to Vienna overnight

After Poisson knew he was deceived,

He did't call the police

Because he wasn't clean，too

And the matter is a shame

which is too humiliating to speak out

So he had to suck it up

The matter passed.

And nothing happened

Unexpectedly, after a month

The bold Lusting returned to Paris

And prepared to repeat offender

He used the same method

To find six mental dealers again

But this time he was not so lucky

Someone felt the thing was wrong

So before the deal is finally reached

The documents and contracts forged by Lusting

Were sent to the police station

However, Lusting was like a cunning fox

After recognizing the game was up, he ran away

In the end, the French police did not catch him.

A few years later

Lusting carried out a series of scams

In the United States where he settled

1930

He united two associates in Nevada

Pharmacist Watts and chemistry teacher Tom

They worked together on the "business" of printing counterfeit money

And invented a set of money laundering methods

Unknowingly, every month they can

put $100,000 of counterfeit banknotes into the market

Years later

More and more counterfeit notes have been found in the market

So the FBI went after it

They finally locked in on Lustig

And launched a nationwide manhunt for him

The FBI didn't find him for years

In 1935,

Lestigo's mistress was jealous

He tipped off his hiding place to the police

The reason why he is jealous is that

Lestigo goes out with the lover of Shaw, his chemistry teacher

Eventually the FBI caught up with Lestigo

The day before it stops

He used the sheets as a rope to slip out of the third-story window

And then disguised as glass

The cleaner managed to escape in full view of the public

But the FBI caught him again 27 days later

The court sentenced him to 20 years in prison

He's in the Alcatraz Union prison

The prison on Alcatraz Island

This prison houses a lot of super-felons

In 1947,

Lestig was suffering from pneumonia

Died in the prison hospital

The doctor who put an end to his SINS

Lestick's doctors used 47 different names

Warlock's passport

These are just the ones that were counted

According to the investigation his original name was Robert Miller

But it turned out to be just another pseudonym for him

His real name may be known only to himself

The most memorable of his many pseudonyms

One of the most notorious

Victor Lustig