Victor lustig Victor Luistig was born in Bohemia, Czechoslovakia, with the number 1890. He is glib, charming and proficient in many languages, and is considered to be the most confident and talented liar. Frank Abagnale Frank Abagnale, the prototype of the film Hide and Seek, once defrauded millions of dollars in many countries. In two years, he disguised as an American Pan Am pilot and enjoyed a scheduled flight around the world. Pretending to be a pediatrician for a few months; He also defrauded Harvard University for a law diploma, passed the bar exam, and got an excellent job in the Louisiana Department of Justice.
Finally, he was arrested by the French police in 1969, and 12 countries (which had cheated in these countries) requested extradition. His prison life began. After two days of trial, he is now serving half a year in a French prison. Prison life made him shudder and he never wanted to go through it again. After extradition to Sweden. When he was tried for forgery, his lawyer Ban Hu tried to exonerate him, but later the charge was changed from forgery to fraud. Six months and a few weeks later, he was transferred to Italy to serve his sentence. Finally, in the United States, many frauds were convicted 12. Charles Ponzi
Many swindlers in Charles Ponzi are inspired by an Italian immigrant named Charles Ponzi. Madoff is no exception. Ponzi is short and pithy. This guy, who is only 157 cm (5 feet 2 inches) tall, quickly accumulated a wealth of150,000 dollars in the eight months of 1920. He convinced thousands of Bostonians that he could help them make quick money. Ponzi scheme was so successful that his name was later used to name this form of fraud-paying investors' money yesterday with investors' money today, and there was no "Ponzi scheme" behind the actual investment.
Christopher Rocancourt
Introduce Christopher Rocancourt Christopher Rocancourt. In Paris, he sold his non-state-owned assets at a high price of $6.5438+400,000. Later, he came to America, posing as a filmmaker, former boxing champion and venture capitalist. He often abuses the names of various celebrities, such as "his mother" sophia loren, "uncle" Oscar de la renta, and so on. Later, she married supermodel Pia Reyes and had a son. I lived with phillip rourke for a while and persuaded the actor Jean-Claude Van Damme to make the next film. Gregor Macgregor
Gregor Macgregor claimed to be the owner of the fictional country "Boyais" after returning to England on 1820, and carefully produced a travel guide. This book describes the geographical environment and rich natural resources on the island. His clever deception attracted many investors and colonists to this island country, and groups of people were deceived. Even in the end, he made a constitution and made himself the master of this country. After being tried for fraud, the swindler is still selling this vacant lot to European aristocrats.
Kathy chadwick
Experience Kathy chadwick was arrested for forgery at the age of 22, and was later released for insanity. 1882, she married Wallace Springsteen. After the crime was exposed, her husband kicked her out of the house 1 1 day. Later, she remarried with Dr. chadwick. From 65438 to 0897, Kathy committed the biggest and most successful fraud in her life: impersonating andrew carnegie's daughter. She forged a cashier's check of $2 million written by Carnegie and defrauded the bank of a huge sum of money as she wished. Cassie*** used this false background to defraud 10 to 20 million dollars. When Carnegie was asked about her, Carnegie denied knowing this person, and the story was exposed. Kathy was arrested, sentenced and died in prison.
Ferdinand Demara
Ferdinand Demara 192 1 was born in Manchester. He joined the army in 194 1 and started a new chapter in his life-living as Anthony Igno Leah (the name of his comrade-in-arms).
Later, he faked his own death and became a psychologist in Penang under the name of robert lin French. The navy and army finally captured him and sentenced him to 18 months in prison.
After that, a series of counterfeiting activities continued-civil engineers, deputy magistrates, deputy supervisors, applied psychologists and lawyers. Child health experts, trapp monks, editors, cancer researchers, teachers and so on. In the process of posing as a teacher, he was arrested and served six months in prison. He seems to get a lot of money from it, but only fame and decency.
Demara returned to the United States in 1960 and died in 1982, but he was a Baptist minister. David Hampton
David hampton david hampton and david hampton, an American black swindler, created the famous film six degrees of separation, because he pretended to be sidney poitier's son and entered the celebrity society.
Hampton began to ask for a free lunch with the appearance of "David poitiers". After that, dozens of people were cheated, leaving it at home and giving him money to spend, including melanie griffith, gary sinise and Calvin Klein. He lied to these people that he was a friend of their children; He missed the plane and lost all his luggage; His luggage was stolen. ...
1983, Hampton was arrested, convicted of fraud and awarded $4,490 in compensation to the victim. In 2003, he died of AIDS complications.
Princess Caraboo
Princess caraboo princess caraboo, the so-called princess. 18 17 An English shoemaker met a confused young woman. The young woman dresses strangely, and the language she speaks is obscure.
The local residents invited many people to know what she was talking about until a Portuguese sailor arrived. Only after the sailor translated her story did everyone know that she was Kalab, a princess from Java Island in the Indian Ocean. After being captured by pirates, she jumped on the boat and swam to the shore. In the following 10 week, the royal family member from a foreign country was warmly welcomed by people. Her portrait was published in the local newspaper. Finally, the truth surfaced: she was actually the daughter of a shoemaker in a small county in England. I have worked as a maid in many places, but I haven't found a place to live yet. I used my imagination to create some strange languages and identities. In America, France and Spain, she continued this deception, but she was not very lucky. 1994' s film princess caraboo is based on this story.
Millie-Vanilli combination
Brief introduction Millie-Vanelli group 1988, this band is popular all over the world and won the Grammy Award for Best Newcomer in 1990. In the same year, in a live broadcast in Connecticut, the recording of the song "You Know It's Real Girl" suddenly got stuck and began to skip, which caused an embarrassing moment in the history of pop music. Later, the truth came out: Milli Vanilli's perfect voice was fake, and during the whole recording process, two members were lip-synching. Once this incident was made public, not only the Grammy Award was revoked, but also two members of the band and Alistar Records received 26 lawsuits. 1998, the year when Millie Vanelli's first album was released 10, Pilatus died of drug overdose in the hotel.