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He Wore His Real Name While Stealing Millions - The Professor Ghost
He Wore His Real Name While Stealing Millions - The Professor Ghost
The thought of a con man who uses his real name draws a quieter, colder dread: Robert Hyams walked into Christie's in February 2002 with a forged bank document for up to £5,000,000 and still signed every lease, check, and court paper with his own name-so why did he keep daring people to trust him? What drove a University of Warwick-trained scientist to repeat frauds across countries for fifteen years while never hiding who he was?
In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events from his 1990 bankruptcy through the…
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