German Konrad Kujau has always felt out of place in his era. He was born in 1938, so he did not catch Hitler's rise to power, and the war was remembered by the fact that he lost his parents in the bombing of Dresden and ended up in an orphanage for 6 years. However, the Führer's fiery speeches on the radio and torchlight processions made a deep impression on little Konrad. In his youth, Kujau admired Hitler and wished he had been born earlier. He invented a false biography and always added a few years to his life, thus getting closer to his favorite era.

Bernie Madoff is an American financier who realized the largest financial pyramid scheme in history. For 40 years of work his company deceived about 3 million people, both very wealthy people and the middle class. The total amount of financial losses of defrauded depositors amounted to $64.8 billion. What is most surprising is that not a single member of Madoff's family knew about this scam.

The Big Five gang

Organized by two brothers, Bill and Bob Christian, natives of Texas. From a young age, the criminal couple had been stealing cattle in New Mexico and Oklahoma. In the late 1880s, they organized a gang, which they called the "High Fives Gang", according to one version in honor of the gaining popularity of the card game, or maybe because the gang was 5 people.

The scams that Victor Lustig pulled off were distinguished from others by a certain amount of humor, irony and sarcasm. Not everyone can sell the Eiffel Tower in Paris or the desert in Nevada.