It is not a question of a salesman on the sly. In the 1920s, Victor Lustig really wanted to sell THE Eiffel Tower. Born in 1890 in Central Europe to a bourgeois family, the young man was a brilliant schoolboy, multilingual, but gradually turned to crime and scams, especially card games. In 1920, he left to conquer the United States where he pretended to be an accountant in order to make his character more credible. Among other things, he managed to swindle Al Capone by selling him a fake money printing machine...
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