Victor Lustig is considered one of the most talented scam.

Victor Lustig is considered one of the most talented scam ever lived on earth. He endlessly inventing scam, he had 45 aliases and fluent in five languages. In the US alone Lusztig arrested 50 times, but each time for lack of evidence released to freedom. Prior to the First World War Lustig specialized in organizing fraudulent lotteries in translatlanticheskih cruises. In 1920 he moved to the United States, and just a couple of years cheated tens of thousands of dollars to banks and individuals.

The most ambitious scam Lusztig was selling the Eiffel Tower. In May 1925 in search of adventure Lustig came to Paris. In a French newspaper Lustig read that the famous tower of the order dilapidated and in need of repair. Lustig decided to take advantage of it. The fraudster was fake credentials, in which he called himself the deputy head of the Ministry of Post and Telegraph, and then sent out official letters to six dealers Vtorchermet.

Lustig invited businessmen in expensive hotel where he was staying, and told me that since the cost of the tower unjustifiably huge, the government decided to demolish it and sell for scrap at a private auction. Ostensibly so as not to cause public outrage, had time to fall in love with the tower, Lustig persuaded businessmen to keep everything a secret. After some time, he sold the rights to dispose of the tower Andre Poisson and fled to Vienna with a suitcase full of cash transferred to them. Poisson, not wanting to look like a fool in business circles, hide the fact of fraud.

Because of this some time later Lustig returned to Paris and again sold the tower in the same way. But this time he was not lucky, because deceived businessman told the police. Lustig was forced to flee to the United States. In December 1935 Lustig was arrested and tried. He received 15 years in prison for counterfeiting dollars, and 5 years for escaping from prison for another month before sentencing. He died of pneumonia in 1947 at the famous prison of Alcatraz near San Francisco.