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August 23, 2012 02:25 pm PDT
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History's smoothest conman
During his legendary criminal career in the 1920s and 1930s, Victor Lustig may not have tried to con anyone into buying the Brooklyn Bridge, but he did manage to sell the Eiffel Tower to a scrap dealer. And that was just one of many capers that the international crook known as The Count managed to [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/tAJvIaU-bEU/historys-smoothest-conman.html
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