The biggest fraudster in the world, the man who sold the Eiffel Man
Victor Lustig, the most deceitful and deceitful crook of modernity, was awarded the title of Count for his paper, fluent in five fluent languages, impersonated 45 names and was arrested dozens of times, 50 times in America alone.
Count Victor was born in Austria in 1890. From the beginning of his life he decided to see the world. He went to the West. He did not find a better place than the ships packed with wealthy travelers to make money. He started talking with the successful businessmen on the sea lines between Paris and New York. The source of his wealth reveals, reluctantly and confidently, the secret of the Fund, and finally, after the insistence that the strange machine appear, claiming that it was in possession of it.
Victor Victor Sabura was very cautious. The fraud began by explaining the mechanism
of the machine by inserting a $ 100 banknote inside it, expressing his resentment that the machine would take 6 hours to print one sheet of the same class. For a fantastic sum of up to $ 30,000. Victor Victor reluctantly sees to the box if the proposed price is right. After the deal is done, in the next twelve hours the machine prints two more sheets, then runs out of supplies and produces a blank sheet. The Victor Kunt has disappeared.
On one of the spring days of 1925, shortly after Count Victor came to Paris, taking into account more scams, he sat reading a newspaper, his eyes stopped when the Eiffel Tower rusted and the cost of maintenance and repair increased. Most Parisians were upset and saw that the ugly tower had to be removed. He had all the possible possibilities behind the news, and he was struck by a hellish idea.
At that time France was recovering from the effects of the First World War, and life in Paris flourished, providing a suitable environment for fraud.
Count Victor immediately executed the plan that made him the myth of the 20th century scammers. He rented a room in an old hotel and began looking for the biggest scrap metal dealers in Paris. He wrote official invitations to six merchants to meet secretly at the Creon de Hotel to discuss a deal Commercial, using fake government papers.
"You know that the high costs of maintaining the Eiffel Tower made it impossible to keep it," said Victor Victor, the deputy director general of the Ministry of Lightning and Post. "Your choice was based on your good reputation as honest businessmen, So it was decided to sell it as scrap, by offering several bids to obtain the right to destroy the tower and possession of 7,000 tons of metal, and then silence for a moment to discover the impact of his words on their faces and added: I inform you that the responsibility has been placed on my mind to determine the appropriate dealer for the task, Bids in tomorrow "I also hope that the matter will remain a secret between us until all the details become clear, and do not forget that it is a secret of the state.
The Eiffel Tower was built for the Paris Exhibition in 1889, and it was not intended to be permanent. It was to be removed in 1909 and moved to another place. Its existence was not commensurate with the great monuments of the city, such as Gothic cathedrals or the Arc de Triomphe.
Victor Victor rented a limousine and took the traders on an inspection tour of the tower, giving him the opportunity to take a pulse in an attempt to find out which of them was the most enthusiastic and naive. The merchant named Andre Poisson was fairly new in the city, And when Andre began to ask him a question, he took advantage of it and began to seduce him: "I, as a government official, do not make enough money to continue the lifestyle I enjoy. I need to find ways to increase my income. Great, understanding "André" is a magnet His words, and take the initiative to his mind that he is dealing with a corrupt government official wants a bribe, making him feel comfortable, these items familiar to him, and has no problem in dealing with one of them.
The trick succeeded, and Count Victor managed to reap the proceeds of the sale of the Eiffel Tower ($ 50,000) and a large sum of bribe ($ 20,000). He fled quickly, carrying a bag full of cash, independent of the train to Vienna.
He waited for a while until the story of the fraud was announced in the newspapers, perhaps with his description, in addition to Sketch's sketch. Surprisingly, none of this happened. André was so humiliated that he did not inform the police and the silence he was subjected to.
A month later Count Victor returned to Paris to give the plan another attempt with other traders, trying to repeat the same fraud but more cautiously than ever before, but this time he felt that one of the new scrap dealers with whom he had communicated the police, fled to the United States .
In Chicago, Count Victor convinced the most dangerous and wealthy Mafia gangs.
"Al Capone" asked for $ 50,000 to invest in a stock deal and promised to pay twice in two months. Al Capone suspected it, but eventually handed him the money. He kept the amount in a deposit box and then returned the money to Al Capone. Claiming that the deal did not work and that he returned to repay the loan, Al Capone was impressed by his integrity and decided that his operation was not catastrophic and he was forgiven and gave him $ 5,000, which he did not want to use. "And then get some money, which earned his reputation as the man who was able to deceive" Al Capone "by the end.
In 1930, Count Victor entered into a partnership with a neoclassical chemist named Tom Shaw, whose task was to dig plates to print counterfeit banknotes and set up a system that pumped more than $ 100,000 a month across the country. Victor Victor In secret, and over the months continued flow of millions of counterfeit currency, and tried to spy intelligence Count Victor pointing to the financial bills in his name that may disrupt the monetary system in the country.
On one night in 1935, Count Victor was walking on a street in New York. At first the secret informants were not sure he was, and his modern groom grew up to make them hesitate for a moment, and inadvertently surprised him by adjusting his coat, He smiled, calmly and smoothly stretched out his hand and gave him his bag, noticed a scar on his left side and a halo of black around his eyes, and when he was interrogated he was calm and ready.
Investigators expected the bag to contain freshly printed banknotes or perhaps millions of dollars of counterfeit banknotes, but only expensive and expensive clothes. Eventually they pulled his wallet out of the coat and found a key. They tried to make Victor Victor acknowledge the key but shook his head Ignoring, and after many inquiries led them to the subway station "Times Square" where he opened a cupboard topped with dust, and found $ 51,000 of counterfeit money.
The New York Times reported the arrest, adding that this was the beginning of the end of the Victorious Count Victor myth.
Victor Victor was held at the federal headquarters in New York - then known as an impotent - waiting to appear before the court, and despite the numerous charges against him, the game for him was not over yet, and boasted in his comic style that there was no prison to disobey him, He was wearing a pair of trousers, slippers, and the ends of the bedspreads. He slipped out of the window, pretending to wipe the windows as he swung down from the third floor of the building, where dozens of passers-by saw him and no one questioned. At the time of the trial, the prison officials went to the cell to bring him, Astonishment when they did not find any trace of the prisoner.
A month later, he was arrested in Pittsburgh and pleaded guilty to the original charges. He was sentenced to 20 years in Alcatraz prison. In 1947, he contracted pneumonia. He died of his illness at the Prisoners' Medical Center in Springfield, Missouri. In his death certificate his profession was listed as a delegate Sales beginner.
Victor Lustig 1890-1947 The legend of the twentieth century was indisputably plagued by dozens of nicknames. He was charged with many arrests and in more than 40 cases he was the winner or escaped jail while awaiting trial. The Eiffel Tower sold to a French scrap metal dealer, and deceived the richest and most powerful Mafia gangs, "Al Capone". They got $ 5,000 from them and sold the "money box" to countless greedy victims who thought the machine was capable. On the printing of securities of $ 100, and one of the victims was one of the smartest Niue Hip in gambling where she paid $ 46,000 for her.