Selling the Eiffel Tower

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artist

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probably the most famous con artist of

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all time is somebody called

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Victor Lustig who in 1925 managed to

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sell the Eiffel Tower yes it's true

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he sold it to a group of really scrap

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metal dealers a scrap metal dealer is

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somebody who buys old metal and then

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resell it for a profit anyway he managed

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to convince them that the Eiffel Tower

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was being taken down anyway it was it

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was a great con he made a lot of money

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and he did some many other remarkable

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cons in his career but as you'd expect

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in the end he got caught and he ended up

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in prison

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I also heard the story of a con that's

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been happening recently in Paris it's a

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story of a man who wears a beautiful

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Italian suit and he stops women in the

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street and he tells them that he's lost

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his wallet and he urgently needs to get

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to to get back to nice for a job

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