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.

Bank robbery, which took place in London in 1971, still confidently occupies the top lines of the ratings of the most audacious crimes of the 20th century.

 

Many of his former patients couldn't hold back tears: "You have no idea what an amazing person and talented doctor he was!"

 

I landed in this country with $2.5 dollars in cash and $1 million dollars in hopes, and those hopes never left me - Cesare Ponzi after arriving in America.