King con!

Victor Lustig was one of the most famous criminals in the history. He had forty-five false identities and was arrested several times. He was born in Prague and lived in a middle-class family and spoke five languages fluently. In 1920s went to USA for start a criminal life.

In Missouri he used one of his most famous atlas, the "Count" Victor Lustig a rich aristocrat Australian man. He wanted to buy a farmhouse that no one wanted to buy. He went to the bank and asked to buy the house that cost $22'000 but, he asked the bank manager to lend him $10'000, the man agreed. When they exchange envelopes Victor's didn't contain nothing, and so, he went out with his $22'000 and the bank's $10'000.

Three years after he returned in Europe, one day in a Paris café he read an article in a newspaper which said that the Eiffel tower was in poor condition and few politicians had thought to demolishing it, than he had a brilliant idea, sell the Eiffel tower.

He asked a forger to make some official government note paper  as "Deputy Director General of the Post Office" he wrote to some companies for selling the Eiffel Tower. He told them  that the government had decided to demolish the tower and sell the metal from it.

He wrote also that this information was reserved and he hoped that businessmen kept the plan secret. The company directors made their offers to buy it, then Victor choose the highest one, took the money and escaped in Austria. Every day he bought e French newspaper  to check if his con was discovered, but there were always nothing about it, because the buyer was too embarrassed to tell anyone what had happened. So, Lustig returned in France, wrote two other companies and sold the Eiffel Tower for the second time, but this time his victim went to the police and Victor had two fly to the  USA.

After many more crimes, Lustig was arrested in 1935. The judge sent him to Alcatraz prison, Victor Lustig died in 1947.