Con Man Who Sold The Eiffel Tower 1925
from Kurupt
A con artist named Victor Lustig literally sold the Eiffel Tower for scrap metal to a Paris businessman in the 1920s, pocketed a massive bribe, and got away with it because his victim was too embarrassed to report he'd tried to bribe a government official. Then Lustig came back a month later and sold the same Tower to a different dealer using the exact same playbook. He eventually died in Alcatraz for counterfeiting, but the Eiffel Tower scam worked because he understood people would rather lose thousands than admit they got conned trying to game the system.
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