11. DB Cooper :
DB Cooper is a name the media used to refer to an unidentified man who hijacked a Boeing 727 mid-flight near Seattle in 1971. He made off with $200,000 in ransom money before parachuting to an unknown fate. The man has never been identified.
10. THE UNABOMBER:
Ted Kaczynski had an IQ of 167, greater than that of Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein. He attended Harvard and finished with a 3.12 GPA, above average. He taught at the University of Michigan and UC Berkley while he was in his 20s. When his reign of his terror began. He sent bombs through the mail to various education institutions, business executives, and airports. He continued this from 1978–1995 without getting caught. He was caught in 1996 after the FBI began the most expensive investigation in its history to catch him. In 1995, he promised that he would end his attacks if his essay, Industrial Society and Its Future, was published in a prominent publication. The Washington Post and The New York Times both published his essay, which clocked in at 35,000 words.
8. PABLO ESCOBAR:
When Escobar was born in 1949 in Antioquia, Colombia. His mother was a School Teacher and his father was a Farmer.
Pablo was ambitious from the beginning, and he used to tell his friends that he would be a millionaire by the time he was 22. By the 1980s. Escobar controlled 80% of the cocaine traffic going into the US. The cartel moved 70 to 80 tons of cocaine into the country per month. At the height of his reign, Pablo Escobar was making around $420 million each week Escobar spent roughly $2,500 a month on rubber bands for his cash. From 1987 until 1993, Escobar made the Forbes list of international billionaires. In 1989, he ranked as the seventh-richest man in the world.
5. CHARLES PONZI:
He was an Italian businessman and con artist in the U.S. and Canada. He became known in the early 1920s as a swindler in North America for his money-making scheme. He promised clients a 50% profit within 45 days, or 100% profit within 90 days by buying discounted postal reply coupons in other countries and redeeming them at face value in the United States as a form of arbitrage. A steady flow of new clients allowed him to pay existing investors while pocketing millions of dollars himself
4. NATWARLAL:
Mithilesh Kumar Srivastava was a lawyer who turned into the ‘great Indian con man. He sold prized monuments of India and duped big-shot industrialists with sheer ease. He sold the Taj Mahal thrice and even the Parliament House of India (along with its 545 sitting members) to gullible foreigners by posing as a government official. He was arrested as many as 9 times but each time he managed to break away. He even faked his death twice.
3. FRANK WILLIAM ABAGNALE JR :
He carried out his criminal activities between the ages of 16 and 21. Within this period, he forged his driver’s license to seem ten years older and then opened several bank accounts using different identities. To remove suspicion while cashing his forged checks, he decided to become a pilot. He forged a pilot’s license and an employee ID.
He forged $2.5 million worth of bank checks across 26 countries he had flown to as a pilot.
Shortly after he stopped working as a pilot he moved to Georgia where he
2. VICTOR LUSTIG:
The man who sold the el tower twice. It is believed to be the biggest scam in the world story that a con man pulled off. The book Handsome Devil is inspired by Victor Lustig's life. He was considered the most flamboyant and daring con man It was 1925 and Victor Lustig was sitting in his Paris hotel room reading a newspaper article about the Eiffel Tower and how the government was having difficulty finding the funds for its maintenance. This gave the idea to Victor to SELL IT. And he did, Twice.
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