One: Victor Russ physique
Victor Lustig was born in 1890 in Bohemia, Czechoslovakia. He was a slippery and very funny, charismatic man, fluent in many languages, and was considered the most confident and talented liar. That's the one who sold the Eiffel Tower several times!
Two: Frank Abbagnale
Frank Abagnale, the prototype of the movie Cat and Mouse Game, once defrauded huge sums of money totaling ten thousand dollars in various countries. For two years, he disguised himself as a Pan Am pilot and enjoyed a worldwide scheduled trip by car and boat; pretended to be a pediatrician for a month; and defrauded a Diploma in Law from Harvard University, passed a bar exam, and found a difference in the Louisiana Department of Justice.
Finally, in 1969, he was arrested by the French police and extradited in 12 countries (where fraud had been carried out). Thus began his imprisonment. After two days of interrogation, he is now serving six months in a French prison. Life during his imprisonment made him shudder and never want to experience it again. He was later extradited to Sweden. At the time of his trial for forgery, his lawyer tried to exonerate him, but the complaint was later converted from forgery to fraud. After 6 months and weeks, he was transferred to Italy to serve his sentence. He finally arrived in the United States and was sentenced to 12 years in prison for multiple fraud. Finally hired by the United States as an expert, it is a legendary life!
Three: Charles Pontz
Many scammers take inspiration from an Italian immigrant named Charles Pontz. Madoff is no exception. Ponzi was short and lean, and the 157-centimeter (5-foot-2-inch) guy quickly amassed a fortune of $15 million over an eight-month period in 1920, and he made tens of thousands of Bostonians believe that he could help them make quick money. The Ponzi scheme was so successful that his name was later used to name the form of fraud – a "Ponzi scheme" that used the money of today's investors to pay off yesterday's investors without any actual investment.
Four: Christopher Locánt
Christopher Rokancott Christopher Rocancott, in Paris, sold his assets that did not belong to him for a whopping $1.4 million. Later, he came to the United States, pretending to be a film producer, a former boxing champion, and a speculative capitalist. He often abused the names of various celebrities such as "his mother" Sophia Loren, "uncle" Oscar de la Renta, and so on. He married supermodel Pia Reyes and had a son; lived with Mickey Rourke for a while, and persuaded actor Jean-Claude Van Damme to shoot the next film.
Five: Gregor McGregor
After Gregor McGregor returned to England in 1820, he claimed to be "Poyais", the owner of a fictional country and crafted a travel guide. The book depicts the island's geography and abundant natural resources. His brilliant deception attracted many investors and colonists to the island nation, and groups of people were deceived. Even in the end, he drew up a constitution and made himself the master of the republic. After being tried for fraud, the great liar was still selling the void land to the European nobility.
Six: Kathy Chadwick
Kathy Chadwick was arrested for forgery at the age of 22 and later released for insanity. In 1882, he married Wallace Springsteen, and after the crime was exposed, her husband threw him out of the house for 11 days. After working with Dr. Chadwick remarried. In 1897, Cassie committed the biggest and most successful fraud of her life: impersonating Andrew Carnegie's daughter. She forged a $2 million promissory note in Carnegie's handwriting and, as she wished, swindled a huge amount of money from the bank. After exploiting this fake background, Cassie defrauded a total of $10 million to $20 million. When Carnegie was asked about her, Carnegie denied knowing the person, and the matter was revealed, and Cassie was arrested, sentenced, and died in prison.
Seven: Ferdinand Demara
Born in Manchester in 1921 and joining the army in 1941, Ferdinand Dymara began a new chapter in his life--- living as Anthony Ignolia (the name of a comrade-in-arms). After making himself a suspended animation, borrowing the name Robert Linton French, Penang was a psychologist. The Navy and Army eventually captured him and sentenced him to 18 months in prison.
After that, a series of counterfeiting activities continued--- civil engineers, deputy judicial officers, deputy supervisors, applied psychology doctors, and lawyers. Child health professionals, Trappist monks, editors, cancer researchers, teachers, etc. During a pass-off of a teacher, he was arrested and served 6 months in prison. It seems that he obtains a lot of money from it, but only fame and decency.
Demara returned to the United States in 1960 and died in 1982, but was a Baptist pastor.
Eight: David Hampton
David Hampton David Hampton, a black-American liar, was the one who made the famous film Six Degrees of Separation because he impersonated Sidney Poitier's son and rose into celebrity society ever since.
Hampton began asking for a free lunch in the guise of "David Poitier." Dozens of people were tricked into leaving him in their homes and giving him money to spend, including Melanie Griffith, Gary Sinise, and Calvin Klein. He lied to these people that he was a friend of their children; he missed the plane and lost all his luggage; his luggage was stolen... In 1983, Hampton was arrested and convicted of fraud, ordering $4,490 in compensation to the victim. In 2003, he died of complications from AIDS.
Nine: Princess Karabu
Princess Caraboo, the so-called princess. In 1817, an English shoemaker met a confused young woman. The young woman was dressed strangely and spoke an obscure language.
Local residents brought in a lot of people to figure out what she was talking about until a Portuguese sailor arrived. After the sailor translated her story, it was learned that --- she was The Princess Caraboo from the island of Java in the Indian Ocean, who was abducted by pirates and swam ashore by a boat. Over the next 10 weeks, the foreign member of the royal family was warmly welcomed.
Local newspapers published her portraits. Finally, the truth comes to light: she is actually the daughter of a shoemaker from a small british county. I have worked as a maid in many places, but I have not found a place to stay. Imaginative creation of some peculiar languages as well as identities. In the United States, France, and Spain, she continued this deception, but she was not very lucky. The 1994 film "Princess Caraboo" is based on this story.
Ten: Mili-Vannili combination
In 1988, the band quickly became popular around the world, winning the Grammy Award for Best Newcomer in 1990. That same year, during a live broadcast in Connecticut, the recording of the song "Girl You Know It's True" suddenly came on tape and began to skipped, creating a major embarrassing moment in the history of popular music. Later, the truth came out: the perfect voice of the Milli Vanilli band was fake, and throughout the recording, the two members were simply fake singing.
As soon as the incident became public, not only were the Grammy Awards retracted, but two members of the band and Alistair Records received 26 lawsuits. In 1998, 10 years after Milli Vanilli's debut album was released, Pilatus died in a hotel from a drug overdose.