The best swindler who tricked the whole land.

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The best 'swindler' who tricked the whole land.

1.The man who sold the "Eiffel Tower" discarded for scrap (and sold 2 rounds!):

Victor Lustig disguised himself as a government official and invited a major scrap dealer to a secret meeting, saying that the government could not carry the Eiffel Tower maintenance bill and would "demolish" him so smooth that the dealer would pay a large sum of money to own the scrap. Apollo got the money, and he fled abroad, but the victim was so embarrassed that he did not dare to report Lustig, so he returned "sold again" to the new victim with the exact same pearl!

Reference Source: Smithsonian Magazine - The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower

2. The general who created the "fake country" came to deceive the sale of land:

Gregor MacGregor, a Scottish soldier, created a land called "Poyais" in Central America. He printed a prospectus, printed notes, and designed his own flag before tricking the British into selling land and bonds for a fortune. The story broke when a ship took investors there and found that it was a "dense forest" with no construction.

Reference source: The Economist - The conman who invented a country.

3. Men who sell "Brooklyn Bridge" 2 times a week:

George C.Parker is a legend of a non-selector. He lurked around the Brooklyn Bridge and tricked the sale of the rights to the bridge to new money or tourists, claiming that the buyer would be able to "collect tolls" for the rest of his life. He sold the bridge for more than 30 years, until the police had to chase the new owner who was trying to block the bridge to collect money.

Reference Source: The New York Times - The Man Who Sold the Brooklyn Bridge

4. "Surgeon," who never studied medicine but survived everyone:

Ferdinand Demara, or "The Great Impostor," disguised himself as a multi-career man, but the peak was to fake a naval surgeon during the Korean War. He had to operate on 16 seriously injured soldiers on a ship based on a face-to-face reading of "surgical texts." As a result, he was able to successfully save every soldier's life without anyone dying before being caught later.

Reference Source: Biography - Ferdinand Waldo Demara: The Great Impostor

5. The girl who tricked the whole British doctor "gave birth to a rabbit":

In 1726, Mary Toft shook the medical community by claiming that she had given birth to a "rabbit piece." Many royal doctors believed it was a miracle, so that the story reached the king's ears that she sent an investigative team to investigate it so thoroughly that she found that she had secretly "stuffed the remains of a rabbit" into her to create a situation of deceiving money and fame.

Reference Source: University of Glasgow - The Curious Case of Mary Toft

"The horror of impostors does not lie...But it's about saying what the victim 'wants to believe' the most, sir. "

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