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The Conman Who Sold the Eiffel Tower - Victor Lustig
Victor Lustig built a criminal career around elaborate confidence schemes, false identities, forged documents, and an extraordinary ability to convince his victims that the impossible was real.
In 1925, posing as a French government official, he convinced scrap metal dealer André Poisson that the Eiffel Tower was being secretly dismantled and successfully sold him the rights to tear it down.
Then after returning to the United States, Lustig became involved in a massive counterfeiting operation that flooded the country with remarkably convincing fake currency while federal agents struggled for…
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