Victor Lustig: The Man Who Conned the World

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?The period after the First World War was a golden age for the confidence man. ‘A new kind of entrepreneur is stirring amongst us,’ The Times wrote in 1919. ‘He is prone to the most detestable tactics, and is a stranger to charity and public spirit. One may nonetheless note his acuity in separating others from their money.’

Enter Victor Lustig (not his real name). An Austro-Hungarian with a dark streak, by the age of sixteen he had l...