Speaking of liars, I believe everyone hates them. Everyone wants to live in an honest world, and their personal and property safety can be guaranteed. They don't have to be suspicious all day, and even the most basic trust between people has been lost. But the ideal is beautiful, but the reality is very skinny. Just saying that there have been some scams in history makes people feel angry and needs to marvel at the liar's superb deception-how did he come up with it! So today's folk story will introduce you to the top ten most incredible scams in the world. Be honest. Come back after dinner.

Top ten scams TOP 10: Selling the Eiffel Tower

1925, a man named Victor Rastig disguised as a government worker and invited five scrap buyers to bid for 70,000 tons of scrap steel in the Eiffel Tower. He first convinced these people that he was the vice minister of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, and then showed them around the iron towers, saying that some of them might be demolished and selling these materials would make a lot of money.

The government doesn't want the public to know about it. Once people hear that the beloved Eiffel Tower is going to be demolished, it will definitely cause an uproar, so it must be kept secret. Buyers were tricked into bribing Rastig. Finally, a wealthy businessman won this "gratifying" project at a cost of $654.38 million.

When the buyer found out that it was a big scam, Victor had disappeared. Because buying and selling state property without permission is a big crime in France, these deceived businessmen have suffered a dumb loss, but they dare not tell anyone. The outside world doesn't know about it at all.

Before the book was published, Rasty realized that he might be able to make another fortune in the same way. Bold, he returned to Paris again, invited a group of new buyers, followed suit and sold the Eiffel Tower again. In this way, he sold the Eiffel Tower twice in a row, as if that method really worked.

Victor Rastig: A talented liar full of humor.

Victor lustig was born in Bohemia, Czechoslovakia. He is glib, charming and proficient in many languages, and is considered to be the most confident and talented liar. Selling the Eiffel Tower, twice, was a great event in his life's deception.

At first, Rasty was derailed on an ocean tanker between Paris and new york. The first scam is the "printing machine". He sold people a machine that can print a hundred-dollar bill in six hours, and the deceived bought the machine at a high price of 30 thousand dollars. However, this machine will only produce two hundred-dollar bills in the next 12 hours. After time, there is only a pile of white paper left. By the time the deceived person realized that he had been cheated, Rasty had already escaped.

1925, the "selling Eiffel Tower" incident broke out. Rastig disguised himself as a government worker and invited six scrap buyers to discuss the deal. The excuse is that the maintenance cost of the tower is high, and the French government does not want to continue the maintenance. Ironically, some buyers really believe this statement and pay huge sums of money to buy it. After receiving the money, Rasty immediately fled to Vienna by train.

Later, Rasty pretended to be upright and honest, treating money like dirt, but pulled out his own teeth, defrauding the gangster Al Capone's trust and getting a reward of $5,000. 1907, Rastig went to the United States to continue cheating, but was finally arrested for forgery. 1947 On March 9th, Rastig got pneumonia and died two days later.