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In recent days, Nigerian fraudsters have put on the Internet or cyber-criminals. Honest business proposals is rejected by potential trading partners if it is found that the IP is from Nigeria.

In a country where people supposedly happiest on earth, one of the most religious and stinking rich human and natural resources, with the average citizen really work hard every day to make, really in most cases, a life is an astonishing claim, but also understandable. Fraudulent e-mails or origin of any email that can be easily identified via the Internet Protocol (IP). However, it takes two to tango. Rightly or wrongly labeled, Nigerians are like the average earthling – Against the whims of the reality of a world nanosecond pace. But how this has become another matter.

The Internet in Nigeria came too later. Also in late 2000 the late 90s and early. Then, little deception was the order of the day as in most countries, especially in the western world. Naples, Italy, New York, USA, London, United Kingdom and many other locations had to tell stories of men and all that cunt. Not much was heard of cybercrime anywhere near the coast of an African cyber-activities is virtually nonexistent. Nobody drives a car of your dreams without having to buy or possess.

All registered early stories of deception or ship con never been to Nigeria or even characters in the drama of Africa, for that matter. According to chroniclers of life and well-informed shameful, a scam or fraud (also known as a bunko, cons, Flim-Flam Gaffla, Grift, agitation, scam, system, scam or deceive) is an attempt to defraud a person or group to gain their trust. The victim is known by the name of the brand, pickpocket known as a trustworthy man, crook, crook or crook, and accomplices are known as "accomplices.

Prisoners use the features of the man such as greed and dishonesty, and that victims of violence from all walks of life con artist is a person who intentionally deceive another person, usually for personal financial gain. In recent history have been a number of crooks who have really stood out for both the accumulated wealth, or how easy to cheat people.

Archivists staged a list of 10 most famous fraudsters of recent history:

1. Frank Abagnale (born 1948)

Abagnale is a French artist check with the former forger and impostor who, for five years in the 1960s, adopted a value of more bad checks of $ 2.5 million in 26 countries. Their infamous acts inspired the film captures the recent blockbuster "Me If You Can." He began to carve a place for himself as a fraud when young he used the Mobil card from his father to buy auto parts, then sold the station for a lower price. Records that have not realize that his father was the one who should pay the bill and when finally faced with fraud, his mother sent him for four months in a Corrections for juveniles.

After moving to New York, Frank has lived solely on income from their activities. One of his tricks The most famous was to print his account number Bank deposit own fake ballots so that when customers of the bank filed money, really want to go to your account. For now, the banks realized what had happened, Frank had spent 40,000 dollars and subway.

For nearly two years, Abagnale world trotting around the world for free in the parade itself as a pilot of the Pan Am was able to abuse the professional courtesy to other airlines to provide free transportation for drivers competing companies if they had to move to another city in the short term. Once he was captured near the exit of an airplane, but changed his garb of a doctor and worked as a medical supervisor for 11 months has not been detected. Sometimes, he worked as a lawyer and teacher.

He was captured in France and time spent within six months in prison. After he was extradited to Sweden and imprisoned for six months. After a successful flight during a trip to the United States, which eventually was 12 years in prison. He escaped from prison by posing as an undercover agent of the Bureau of Prisons. He was captured again in New York and return to prison. After serving five years of his sentence, The U.S. federal government offered him his freedom in exchange for helping the government against fraud and scams without pay.

He directs currently Abagnale and Associates, a consulting firm and financial fraud is a multi-millionaire.

2. Charles Ponzi [Date of birth: 1882 Died: 1949]

Ponzi, an immigrant to Italy United States become one of the most famous frauds in American history. Although many people know the name Ponzi, the Ponzi scheme is well known and continues today on the Internet to make patterns Fast Money. His early years were not fully aware of as it was prone to inventing stories about him. What is known is that he spent a short period of time at the University Rome, after leaving, he took a ship to Boston, USA, where he arrived with $ 2.50 in his pocket.

His early United States have been problematic. He began working in a restaurant but he was soon drawn to play tricks with invoices and customers defraud. His next job was working in a bank in Canada to adapt to Italian immigrants. His knowledge of numbers served very well there. Unfortunately it appeared that the owner was stealing money from bank savings accounts recently opened to pay interest on accounts and bearing interest cover bad investments. The owner of the bank eventually fled to Mexico and left without work Ponzi. After writing a check fraudulent and spending a number of years in prison, Ponzi decided to become rich at any price.

Once we got settled in the life outside, he discovered postal reply coupons through a letter he sent from abroad. He realized he could buy foreign stamps massively devalued price (because price-fixing after the war) and then sell to U.S. with a gain of 400%. It was a form of arbitration and legal. Ponzi began paintings to friends and acquaintances of the money – promising a yield of 50% or double your money in 90 days. He started his own company, the Securities Exchange Company, to promote the system.

The word of this spread quickly and large investment Ponzi lived in a luxurious mansion. He brought in cash at a fantastic rate, but the simplest analysis Financial revealed that it was money he was losing. For every dollar he had, was deeply in debt. While the money kept flowing in, Ponzi is staying ahead of the final fall.

The people soon became suspicious and the press began to publish negative articles about him. Inevitably, people began to demand their money. Shortly afterward, Federal agents raided his office and close. No buffer stock has been found, and all those who had invested their money in Ponzi lost every cent. It is likely that they lost tens of millions of dollars. Ponzi was convicted of mail fraud and was sent to prison. After a leak that was sent to prison finally sentence. He was deported to Italy where he died in poverty in 1949.

3. Joseph Weil [1877 Death Date of Birth: 1975]
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Joseph "Yellow Kid" Weil was one crooks most famous time. Throughout his career, is believed to have stolen more than $ 8 million. In his first job as a collector, he went realized that his colleagues were collecting their debts, but keeping a little money for themselves. Weil started a protection racket – offering not unaware of their activities in exchange for a small part of what they took.

He also used fake offers of oil, women, fixed races, and an endless list of other stuff Rob increasingly a gullible public. It could change your people every day to promote advantages: one day Dr. Henri Reuel, a geologist noted that the tower and told his guests that he was the representative of a major oil company, Then they took the money he gave to "invest fuel. The next day, he was director of the Elysee Development Company, promising land to innocent believers while denying them in the registry and abstract fees. Or was eminently a chemist who discovered how to copy a ticket dollar, the promise to increase his fortune, he would multiply your bill and take the booty once the police arrived.

In his autobiography, Weil writes:

"The desire to get something for nothing has been too expensive for many people who have treated me and cons other men, "says Weil." But I discovered that this is how it works. The average person, in my opinion, ninety-nine per cent animal and one per cent of men. Eighty-nine per cent which is the animal causes very few problems. However, one percent that is human all our ills. When people learn – I doubt – they can not get something for nothing, crime decreases and we will live in greater harmony. "

4. (Count) Víctor Alegre [Date of Birth: 1890 Death: 1947]

Victor Lustig was recognized as the man who sold the Eiffel Tower. Born in Bohemia, but later moved to Paris, where he has been with people on his frequent trips between Paris and New York. With his first to show people a device that could print $ 100 bills. The only problem, he says, is that only prints a bill every six hours. Much People paid him huge sums of money (usually over $ 30,000) for the device. In fact, the device contains two Bills hidden real $ 100 – once the machine that spat only produce virgin paper. When buyers have discovered that, Alegre was well gone with your money.

In 1925, that France was recovering from the war, maintaining the Eiffel Tower was almost unbearable for the costs of the city of Paris. When Alegre read about it on paper, you had a brilliant idea. After forging powers of government, has invited six scrap metal dealers to a secret meeting in a hotel. He explained that the city could not afford to keep the tower and had to sell it for scrap. He said the secret of the meeting and all future negotiations was due to the fact that may become public anxiety about the idea of removing the tower.

Although it seems unlikely while the tower was built it was intended to be temporary and this happened just 18 years after the date originally scheduled for the removal of the tower. Alegre dealers took a limousine to visit the tower. One of the distributors, Andre Poisson was convinced that the story was legitimate and gave money. When he realized he had been deceived, I was too embarrassed to tell the police and Lustig escaped with the money. A month later, he returned to Paris to try to scam all over again. This time, it was reported to police Alegre but managed to escape.

At one point Lustig convinced Al Capone to invest 50,000 dollars with him. Put the money in safe, and returned two months later, indicating that the operation had failed. Capone was so impressed by the honesty Lustig gave 5000 $ For their efforts. In 1934, Alegre has been convicted of counterfeiting. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 20 years in Alcatraz. In 1947, he died of pneumonia in prison in Springfield, Missouri.

5. George Parker [Date of Birth: 1870 Death: 1936]

Parker was one most daring con men in American history. He made his living selling points New York Public for unsuspecting tourists. His favorite subject was selling the Brooklyn Bridge, which sold twice a week for years. He convinced his marks could make a fortune by controlling access to road. More than once the police had to pull unsuspecting buyers try to raise the bridge toll booths.

Other public places, including sold the original Madison Square Garden, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Grant's tomb and the Statue of Liberty. George had many methods to make sales. When he sold the tomb of Grant, often posing as a quick-general's son. Even a game of fake "office" to manage their real estate scams. It has used forged documents to prove that impressive was the legal owner of all goods it sells.

Parker was convicted of fraud on three occasions. After his third conviction of 17 December 1928 was sentenced to life imprisonment in Sing Sing Prison. He has spent the last eight years of his life behind bars. He was popular among the guards and other inmates who enjoyed hearing their exploits. George is remembered as one of the most successful frauds in the history of the United States and one of the most talented forgers history. His exploits have passed into popular culture, giving rise to phrases like "and if you think I have a bridge for sale" a popular way to express the belief that the person is naive.

6. Date soap [Smith Birth: 1860 Death: 1898]

Soapy Smith (born in Jefferson Randolph Smith) was a crook and American gangster who had a major hand operations of organized crime in Denver, Colorado Creede, Colorado, and Skagway, Alaska from 1879 to 1898. It is perhaps the most famous "safe" "Man of the Old West Bunko. At some point in 1870 or early 1880, Smith started all wrong with a multitude of tactical Denver newspapers dubbed the price of the package of soap copy Swindle.

Jefferson opened the horns and Keister (display on a tripod) in a busy street corner. Piling ordinary cake of soap on top Keister, he described its wonders. Addressing the growing crowd of onlookers to withdraw from your portfolio and start wrapping paper money from a dollar at a hundred dollars on a small group of bars. Then each bar ended plain paper packaging around it to hide the money. Wrap Joint money wrapped bars that was money. He then sold the soap to the crowd a dollar a cake.

A fraudulent planted the crowd went to buy a bar, tearing, and loudly proclaiming that he had won something money floating around for all to see. This action had the desired effect of attracting the sale of packages. Often victims have purchased several bars before the sale was concluded. A half of the sale, Smith would say that the hundred dollar bill was still in the stack, without buying it. Then auctioned the remaining bars of soap to the highest bidder.

Thanks to the masterful art of manipulation and sleight of hand, bars of soap that contributed to the money have been hidden and replaced by packages of non-holding of cash. He said that money "earned" it was members of what was known as the band "soap". Soapy was eventually shot by a group that defrauded in a game of cards.

7. Eduardo de Valfierno

Eduardo de Valfierno, who returned to itself as a Marquis (Marquis), was an Argentine man sentenced allegedly orchestrated the theft of the Mona Lisa. Valfierno paid several men to steal works of art Louvre, including museum staff Vincenzo Perugia. On August 21, 1911 Perugia Mona Lisa hidden under his coat and simply walked out the door.

Before the theft took place, ordered Valfierno art restorer and forger Yves Chaudron French to make six copies of the Mona Lisa. The forgeries were sent to different parts of the world, preparing to match buyers. Valfierno knew once the Mona Lisa was stolen to be more difficult to get past copies of Customs. After the theft of copies have been delivered to their buyers, each thinking he had the original, which had been stolen by them. Because only wanted to sell counterfeit Valfierno only need the original Mona Lisa to disappear and never come into contact with Perugia again after the crime. Finally, Perugia was caught trying to sell the painting in the Louvre and was returned in 1913.

8. Hogue James [Date of Birth: 1959]

Hogue is an impostor United States became the most famous Princeton University by posing as a self-taught orphan. In 1986, he enrolled in a high Hogue School of Palo Alto Jay Mitchell Huntsman, an orphan of 16, of Nevada. He adopted the identity of a dead child. A local journalist explained suspicious. In 1988, Hogue enrolled at Princeton University under the pseudonym Indris Alexi Santana, a self-taught orphan from Utah. Deferred income of year because he had been convicted of theft of bicycle frames in Utah. Hogue claimed in its application materials that had stayed in the Grand Canyon, raising sheep and reading philosophers. He violated his probation for entering the classroom. For the next two years, Santana and was living as a member of the track team. He also was admitted to the Ivy Club.

In 1991 Hogue true identity became apparent when Renee Pacheco, a student from high school in Palo Alto, recognized him. He was arrested for defrauding the University for $ 30,000 in financial assistance and sentenced to three years imprisonment with probation for five years and 100 hours of community service.

On May 16, 1993 Hogue has made headlines again for his association with Harvard University. After lying about his identity once again, was that take a job as a guard at a museum on the campus of Harvard. A few months in office, museum officials realized that several gems presentations been replaced by imitations. Hogue Somerville police at his home and charged him with robbery in the amount of $ 50,000.

The March 12, 2007 Hogue pleaded guilty to a single crime of theft over $ 15,000 in exchange for a sentence of imprisonment not exceeding 10 years, According to prosecutors and to give another flight and habitual criminal charges.

9. Robert Hendy-Freegard [Date of birth: 1971]

Robert Hendy-Freegard is a boy of British car dealer, a swindler and an impostor who posed as MI5 agent and fooled several people into hiding for fear the assassination of the IRA. He met his victims in social occasions or as a customer at the bar or car dealership where he worked. It would be his "role" as a secret agent of MI5, Special Branch and Scotland Yard against the IRA. He earn more, borrow money and do his will. He demanded that they cut all contact with family and friends without "loyalty tests" and living alone in poor condition. Five women seduced, saying he wanted to marry. Initially some of the victims refused to cooperate with police because he had warned that police would double agents, or MI5 agents perform another test of loyalty. "

Hendy-Freegard also seduced a bride for personal care their children. He said he was with MI5 and forced him to break off contact with friends and family is not that the IRA would kill him. He also took nude photos of her and threatened to give her husband if she did not cooperate. She had to change his name and say agent because it is unilateral was sexually abused in childhood. Their loyalty tests, including sleeping in the airport of Heathrow and benches for several nights and pretending to be a Jehovah's Witness while their bosses at MI5 allow them to marry.

In 2002, Scotland Yard and the FBI conducted an operation infiltration. First, the FBI is listening to phone the fathers of American psychologist. His mother said Hendy-Freegard given £ 10,000, but only in person. Hendy-Freegard met the mother at Heathrow Airport, where police have apprehended. He denied all charges and said they were part of a conspiracy against him and the story continues in subsequent trial. On June 23, 2005, after a trial eight months, Blackfriars Crown Court convicted Robert Hendy-Freegard of two counts of kidnapping, theft of 10 and eight of deception. On September 6, 2005 has been sentenced to life imprisonment. The police have certainly found all the victims. On April 25, 2007, the BBC reported that Robert Hendy-Freegard had appealed his conviction and removal won. This means that the life sentence be overturned, but he still has nine other crimes. It could be free in late 2007.

10. Bernard Cornfeld [Date of Birth: 1927 Death: 1995]

Bernard Cornfeld was a prominent businessman and international financial investments sold in U.S. mutual funds. He was born in Turkey. When he moved to the United States first worked as a social worker, but became a seller of mutual funds in the 1950s. Despite suffering from a stutter, who had a natural gift for selling and when the father of a dead friend in school, both have used the insurance money 3000 $ To purchase and implement an age and weight guessing booth at the fair attractions Coney Island.

In the 1960s, Cornfeld founded his own company Sales of investment funds, foreign investors in Services (IOS), which incorporated outside the United States with funds in Canada and based in Geneva, Switzerland. Although offcially headquarters in Geneva, the main offices of operation of the IOS were in Ferney-Voltaire, France, some distance from the Swiss border in Geneva is simply a way of avoiding the difficulties of obtaining a work permit in Switzerland for many employees. During the next ten years, IOS has raised more than $ 2,500,000,000, which Cornfeld a personal fortune of more than $ 100 million. Cornfeld himself is known for conspicuous consumption of sumptuous feasts. Socially, it was generous and jovial.

A group of 300 employees complained to the IOS Swiss authorities that Cornfeld and his co-founders of the product pockets of share issue raised by workers in 1969. Consequently, it was accused of fraud in 1973 for the Swiss authorities. When Cornfeld went to Geneva, Switzerland, the authorities arrested him. He served 11 months in a Swiss jail before being released on bail of $ 600,000 bail. He returned to Beverly Hills, life less ostentatious than in recent years earlier. He developed an obsession with health foods and vitamins, has waived the red meat and rarely drank alcohol. He suffered stroke and died of a brain aneurysm February 27, 1995 in London, England.

Grandfather of all con men of history is Bernard Madoff, the brain's largest investment scams. This report from Reuters about his trial and conviction:

"Bernard Madoff was sentenced Monday to 150 years in prison – the maximum sentence, the judge may give the" extraordinarily bad "crimes investment Wall Street, more and more brazen fraud. "

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"Investors Fleeced in the room applauded and cheered when the judge issued the sentence.

Madoff, De 71, was passive, hands clasped at the waist, showing no reaction when he heard the sentence that has sent to prison for the rest of his life.

The first non-executive chairman of the Nasdaq Stock Exchange, was imprisoned in a cell in Manhattan since pleaded guilty to 11 charges including securities fraud, money laundering and perjury in March.

"Here, the message should be sent to Dr. Madoff crimes were extraordinarily bad, "said U.S. District Judge Denny Chin rejected the defenses to a light sentence of 12 years. "Abuse of trust has been massive.

"I can not get the impression that Mr. Madoff has all she could and that everything he knows. "

The fund manager of gray hair was dressed in his signature dark gray suit, white shirt and tie instead of a prison uniform.

The disgraced Sat financial liabilities at all times and the middle ear that their victims called a "beast", an "animal" and a criminal. "

He has apologized to them at a turning point around 250 people in the courtroom.

"I will live with this pain, torment, for the rest of my life," he said quietly. "I live in a troubled state experience pain and suffering they have created. "

Madoff, who has been accused of defrauding investors across in the outside world as much $ 65 billion, said: "In my business, when you make a mistake trading, is expected to Trade an error is accepted. My mistake was much worse. I made a mistake of the trial. "

CAUGHT by the financial crisis

December Madoff arrest came as investors felt the weight of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of 1930.

Case has generated much criticism from the U.S. Securities And Exchange Commission, which has been accused of lack of red flags would have been the curtain on its management assets.

Nobody knew where Madoff serve his sentence in what prosecutors described as fraud in the world of retail investors and the rich charities and financial institutions.

The court heard statements heartbreaking Chin Madoff nine of the victims, some of whom said they had lost all their savings, have been forced to sell their homes or had to seek government assistance to buy food.

"I just hope that his sentence is long enough for his prison cell will become your coffin," said Michael Schwartz, 33, who said his family had been robbed of savings for the care of his mentally disabled brother.

The White House said that the judge sent a strong signal to people who handle other people's money.

'I think that message is heard loud and clear "said Spokesman Robert Gibbs of Barack Obama.

Madoff was arrested in December after two children told authorities that he had confessed to his investment empire was a fraud.

Prosecutors said Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities was 65 billion U.S. dollars in client accounts weeks earlier of his arrest, but the liquidation of the company president has so far been able to collect 1.2 billion dollars to repay investors.

As much as 170 billion U.S. dollars have passed through the principle of Madoff in recent decades. Madoff symbolically sentenced to pay this amount as compensation.

If a penalty is much lower Madoff sent in prison for life, Chin said he deserved the maximum, usually imposed on the organized crime bosses.

"The fraud here was unbelievable, "said the judge.

A law professor said he was surprised by the sentence, but certainly have a deterrent effect.

"I like to think that the mini-Madoff there might think that what happened today has something to do with them, but I suspect that most of them, "said Jayne Barnard College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.

Advocate Madoff said no decision had been taken on the appeal of the sentence.

No Madoff family came to court. They have not attended one of his appearances before the court.

The judge said he had not received a single letter, Madoff on behalf of the testimony of a good deed or charity. "Lack of such support is," Chin.

Ruth Madoff woman 68 years, has not been charged with any crime, but was lambasted by investors defrauded, rejected by friends and pursued by the media. Breaking his long silence, said in a statement Monday that he had been "betrayed and confused" by swindling her husband.

"From the moment I learned from my husband who had committed a huge fraud, I had two thoughts – first, that both those who trust in him would ruined financially and emotionally, and, secondly, that my life with the man I have known for over 50 years was more than he says.

Madoff said he acted alone. The only other person criminally charged is your external accountant.

Madoff brother, Peter, and his son, Mark and Andrew, were executives at the brokerage unit of your company. They said they had no knowledge management or asset through.

Madoff and his wife have agreed to sell three properties and luxury goods and other valuables. Revenues sales of assets will be distributed to defrauded investors.

Ruth Madoff will be left with $ 2.5 million, after losing claim approximately $ 80 billion of assets, including the couple's apartment in Manhattan penthouse.

Madoff, investors in the courtroom he could offer no excuses, saying he tried to undo their crimes, but "the more I tried, over a hole dug deep for me. "

Investors said the apology left cold.

"There is something very pathological. He continues to make excuses for himself, "said George Nierenberg, 57.

(Reporting by Grant McCool, Martha Graybow, Daniel Trotta, Mike Erman and Christine Kearney, edited by John Wallace, Toni Reinhold) "

Things scam on our collective nerves that the proposals are not honest business at a glance in prospects for most foreigners once the poster's IP address Nigeria: But one fact remains – the victims of scams are greedy and gullible 2 and 4 fall proportionately as criminal regimes. The victim wanted or not by the acceptance of proposals to get rich quick, commits a crime unlikely (?) complications.

According to Wikipedia, "The earliest known use of the term confidence man" in English has been in 1849 and has been used by the American press during the trial of William Thompson USA. Thompson spoke with strangers until he asked if they had the confidence to lend him their watches, then left on foot with the clock, which was captured when the victim had recognized in the street. "

The online encyclopedia respected, including explains: "The deception exploit typical qualities humanities such as greed, dishonesty, vanity, honesty, compassion, gullibility and naivety. The common factor is that the brand is based on good faith from the crook. Just as there is no typical profile for swindlers, neither is it one of their victims. Virtually everyone may fall prey to fraudulent crimes.

Indeed, victims of investment fraud high yield may have a level that exceeds the greed of their care, and a willingness to believe what they want to believe. However, all fraud victims are greedy, risk-taking, people self-deception trying to make money quickly. Not all innocent victims of fraud, uneducated, or elderly. One brand of selfish or dishonest may try to cheat on swindler, only to discover that he has been manipulated to lose from the beginning. This is a general principle in the towers of confidence that there is a saying among con men that "no one can cheat an honest man. "

The operator works often with one or more accomplices called hooks, to help manipulate the mark to accept the plan disadvantages man. In a classic scam, the brand led to believe he will be able to earn money or other reward for doing a task. The accomplices may pretend to be strangers who received the task in the past.

Wikipedia also contains its own register of famous artists world, some of them have been mentioned in the preceding paragraphs above, and it is clear that none of them have been from Nigeria or Africa, for the case:

scammers remarkable

Born in the 18th century

Gregor MacGregor (1786-1845) – Scottish crook who tried to attract investment and settlers for a country that is Poyais not.

Born or active in the nineteenth and sash

Blong Lou (1849-1924) – Organized massive ring of con men in Denver in 1900.

Helga Brache (1817-1885)

Horace de Vere Cole (1881-1936)

Canada Bill Jones – a card game and strong boat

Victor Lustig (1890-1947) – Born in Bohemia (now Czech Republic) and known as "the man who sold the Eiffel Tower."

George C. Parker (1870-1936) – the man who sold the United States New York attractions for tourists.

Charles Ponzi (1882-1949) - "Chain Ponzi is a "rich" fast "fraud named after him.

Death Valley Scotty (1872-1954) a prospector, performer and swindler, famous for gold mining scams and Hotel in Death Valley known as Scotty's Castle.

Soapy Smith (1860-1898) – the trust of the gang leader who operated in Denver, Colorado, Creede, Colorado, and Skagway, Alaska

William Thompson (active from 1840 to 1849) – U.S. criminal whose deceptions caused the man who invented the trust term.

Weil, Joseph (1875-1976) – One of the most famous men of his time hit America.

Cassie Chadwick (1857-1907) – U.S. defrauded from several banks of millions of dollars by pretending to be an illegitimate daughter and heiress of Andrew Carnegie.

Born or active in the 20th century

Bernie Cornfeld (1927-1995) – led the service of foreign investors, accused to be a pyramid scheme.

Richard Eaton (1937-1979) – Con, salon owner and general manager of the factory Moo Moo Vedda clothing and an associate of the Lucchese crime family.

David Hampton (1964-2003) – The inspiration for the book and movie Six Degrees of Separation

Konrad Kujau (1938-2000) – German forger alleged Hitler Diaries.

Eduardo of Valfierno – No commemorative Argentine allegedly orchestrated the theft of the Mona Lisa in 1911.

People living

Frank Abagnale (1948) – USA check forger and impostor, his autobiography, Catch Me If You Can, has been adapted to cinema.

Peter Foster (1962) – The Australian crook with convictions and prison sentences of three continents, fraud and money laundering money scam known as the weight loss Bai Lin tea and participation in property transactions with Cherie Blair.

Karl Gerhartsreiter Christian (1961) – Bavarian-born con man who, for nearly two decades, said a member of the wealthy Rockefeller family.

Robert Hendy-Freegard (1971) – The British kidnap victims by posing as an agent of MI5 and the defrauded money.

Jacques Arthur Hogue (1959) – U.S. impostor who entered the most famous Princeton University by posing as a self-taught orphans.

Clifford Irving (1930) – American writer, known as a fake "autobiography entitled" Howard Hughes.

Samuel Israel III (1959) – ex-Ran fraudulent hedge fund Bayou Group, a fake suicide.

Bon Levi (1943) – Ron and Ronald Frederick With Aka. We can say that known fraudster who duped Australia the majority of Australians and citizens of the United States invest in franchise businesses scam. It was imprisoned in Australia and the United States.

Bernard Madoff, Lawrence (1938) - former president of the Nasdaq admitted running a world record U.S. $ 65 million Ponzi scheme. Under the direction of the hedge fund Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, until his arrest in 2008. In March 2009, eleven pleaded guilty to federal crimes.

Matt the Knife (1981) – born in American credit card cheat and thief who defrauded companies, casinos, and the least crime family of the Mafia.

Barry Minkow (1967) – businessman U.S.. Best His company, ZZZZ, investors an estimated $ 100 million dollars before he spent seven years in prison for fraud and other crimes.

Semyon Mogilevich (1946) – is a billionaire crime boss and an artist's world view by Europeans and U.S. Application federal agencies the right to be the "boss of bosses" of most unions in the Russian mafia in the world.

Pearlman Lou (1954) – U.S. employers and director of boy bands, sentenced to 25 years to operate an investment Ponzi scheme.

Casey Serin (1982) – Mortgage confessed swindler who became "the child of the housing bubble.

Solomon Dwek (c.1973)-Syrian Orthodox Jewish rabbi and investor real estate transaction, New Jersey pleaded guilty to bank fraud involving $ 50,000,000 PNC Bank.

Michael Sabo (1945) Best known for its history as a forger to check the stocks and bonds. He became famous in the 1960s and throughout the 1990s as an impostor "great" and was featured on national television, more than 100 aliases, and won millions.

With the foregoing, it is fair to condemn the Nigerian world of inculturation of the West in the quasi-criminal almost all aspects of contemporary life. Western films in Nigeria and Africa will host all types of immorality far stranger. People use three-piece suits and long hot crooks have recently started to use religion to update their thought processes scam. Well, no surprises on your server as Jesus has already warned two millennia ago that "These days, many will come to deceive many in my name. "We are seeing now, and most of them Nigerians. But why deal with such ignominy?

As mentioned above, the Internet and mobile technologies arrived on these shores in recent years 90. Before that, Western misleading continue deceiving people through different systems and have not been accused of being Nigerians. They hacked into computer systems by viruses and not Desired did other things against humanity. 95% of Nigerians have no access to the Internet, but we are talking about regimes of Internet fraud surprising is attributed to Nigerians.

Many of these e-mails are also sent to most of us (Nigerians) but ignore them without wincing.

For example, you get an email saying fraud has won the contest and blah blah blah. You knew that did not play games or deceive. It is greed and trying to reap what you sow it. Or send someone an email saying that someone dies and leave the money in a fictitious bank account and needs your help to get out of yours. I would not buy this idea of half a cent, I 'm not greedy. In my little research, I realized that these systems are actually inherited from the scam western world. His return, while Sender's syndrome. In addition, we hear these days Madoff this world whose sole booty booty exceeded full call of crooks from Nigeria. 0.001% of Nigerians Unlike most western countries are actually involved in either. Its ability to send spam to millions with the push button of the average Nigerian is a scammer, and that singular act Omar Faruk Abdulmutallab action on Christmas Day 2009 did not all terrorists suicide bombers or Nigerians.

Nigeria is real means of employment and work everyday to earn a living. The world in most cases, think about people and places who have never been as representing what they get from their news sources.

My advice for the always-phobia: Never try to enter a building through the windows when the door is open. Greed and selfishness is a sine qua non for being a scam victim.

My case yet.

PS

This testimony is true inboxes Nigeria to me by an American White, one of my friends in Facebook:

March 15 at 2:54 p.m.
Hello Henry – Please tell me about the fan page. Yes, I know and I understand that – It's a shame that some people did not respect Nigerians have a poor / assumtions ignorant about them. There are con artists and scammers everywhere, and we pray for God's protection of people so badly. I have used and abused by people in person in real life, even recently, here in Montana, and none has ever Nigerians.

I lived in southern California and my son had a medical emergency. With the to pay for this I had to refinance the house my mother had just left me as if she had died. I called every company loans mortgage that I could find. I lived in Orange County (I hated that there was no indigenous not-unpleasant) and called on businesses in Los Angeles and Ventura counties as well. While companies could find. I just declared bankruptcy.

Finally, I arrived a company in Thousand Oaks, California. All had a British accent. They were the only company of thousands of people to help me. Helping to have confidence in me. They were also Christians. I shared with them the status of my son and Children's Services has threatened take my children away because I could not find a doctor who was able to work with him – had / has an uncommon condition (that is how we found ourselves in Montana).

They refiananced my house. I had to pay $ 6,000 to a lawyer just to keep my child home. It is ridiculous to Henry that his problem was with the knee and his main complaint was that he was overweight. It was not life threatening and anyway I had taken to 10 different doctors and had the proof!

Then they refinanced again! They said it would be easier with my bankruptcy, and having have a loan should find a private party. I begged them and told them my situation and what was happening with my son. He shared with me that they were Christians.

Everyone in office has been very good to me. All said they were praying for me and my children.

Finally sold house that the surgeon I could find who knew my son was working on here in Montana.

After leaving California, I arrested at his office. I wanted to personally thank all of what he had done for us. His confidence and kindness left the family together. They also been very fair with their prices and trade.

I stopped and went, and was so surprised that they were all from Africa, Nigeria. They had been reared in England. And the wife of the owner to this day remains the most beautiful African woman that I saw in my life. Tradtitional Nigeria wore clothes.

Henry, these people were my angels on this earth. My parents have passed from cancer, my brother was a drug addict (now clean and has found the Lord, glory to God), my husband ran to be a hobo on a train (true story) and his family, They were rich, no matter if my children were alive or dead.
These Nigerians saved my family – my children – the most precious thing on the face of this earth for me. Never ever, ever forget what they have done for me and my children. I am very grateful to God for them.

Also, I met great people here at Facebook Nigeria.

Thank you for listening to this story. God bless you!
Sincerely,

(Identity withheld)

About the Author

Born on November 24 1965 in Lagos, Nigeria. Graduated with a B.Sc (Honours) degree in Psychology from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria in 1991. Has had stints in management and construction. Currently involved in Oil and Gas Consultancy

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