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These days, Nigerians have Internet scammers and cyber-criminals. Honest business proposals is rejected by potential trading partners if it is found that the IP address comes 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 Internet Protocol (IP). However, it takes two to tango. Rightly or wrongly labeled, Nigerians are like the average earthling – against the vagaries of the reality of a world nanosecond pace. But how this has become another matter.
The Internet in Nigeria came too late. 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 hustlers and all that. Not much was heard of cybercrime anywhere near the coast of a country in Africa cyber-activities is virtually nonexistent. Person not driven a car of your dreams without having to buy or possess.
All registered early stories of deception or con a ship have never been to Nigeria or even characters in the drama of Africa, for that matter. According to chroniclers knowledgeable and disgraceful life, scam or confidence game (also known as 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 as the mark, the pickpocket is called a trusted man, crook, crook or swindler, and accomplices are known as "accomplices.
Prisoners exploit human traits 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 really stands out for its wealth that has accrued, or how easy to fool people.
Archivists staged a list of 10 most famous fraudsters of recent history:
Franco is an artist Abagnale check with the former forger and impostor who, for five years in the 1960s, adopted a value of more checks NSF of $ 2.5 million in 26 countries. Their heinous acts inspired the film captures the recent blockbuster "Me If You Can." He began to carve a place for himself fraud as a young man when he used the card to buy car parts from his father and then resold to the Mobil service station on a lower price. Records have it was not that your father was the one who should pay the bill and when finally faced with fraud, his mother sent for four months in a correctional institution for young offenders.
After moving to New York, Frank has lived exclusively on income from their activities. One of his most famous tricks was to print your account number bank deposit slips so fake when clients of the bank deposited the money, really want to go to your account. For now, the banks realized what had past, Frank had $ 40,000 and underground.
For nearly two years, Abagnale world trotted around the world free to scroll as a pilot of Pan Am was able to abuse the professional courtesy to other airlines to provide free transportation services for pilots planes to compete if they had to move to another city in the short term. Once he was captured near the exit a plane, but changed his costume a doctor and worked as a medical supervisor for 11 months without being detected. Sometimes it worked as a lawyer and a teacher.
He was captured time in France and spent six months in prison there. After he was extradited to Sweden and imprisoned for six months. After a successful flight during a trip to the United States, which has finally been 12 years in prison. He escaped jail by posing as an undercover agent of the Bureau of Prisons. He was captured again in New York and returned to prison. After serving five years of his sentence, the U.S. federal government offered him his freedom in exchange for helping the government of fraud and fraudsters without pay.
He currently runs Abagnale and Associates, a consulting firm and financial fraud is a multi-billionaire.
2. Charles Ponzi [Date of birth: 1882 Died: 1949]
Ponzi, an Italian immigrant to the United States have become one of the most famous frauds in American history. Although many people do not know the name Ponzi, the Ponzi scheme is very well known and continues today on the Internet to make patterns Fast Money. His first year were not fully aware of as it was prone to inventing stories about it. What is known is that he spent a short period of time at the University Rome and, after leaving, he took a ship to Boston, USA, where he, with $ 2.50 in his pocket.
His early years in the U.S. have been problematic. He began working in a restaurant but he was soon dismissed for playing tricks with bills and defraud customers. His next Force has worked in a bank in Canada to adapt to Italian immigrants. His knowledge of license numbers do very well. Unfortunately, it appeared the owner was stealing money from bank savings accounts recently opened to pay interest on accounts cover accrued interest and 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 prices (due to the fixing of prices after the war), and then sell to United States with a gain of 400%. It was a form of arbitration and legal. Ponzi began paintings to friends and acquaintances of money – promising a return 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 financial analysis showed that I was not making money, he was losing. For every dollar he had, was deeply in debt. So much money kept flowing in, Ponzi would stay 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 has been returned to prison finally sentence. He was deported to Italy where he died in poverty in 1949.
3. Joseph Weil [Date of birth: 1877 Death: 1975]
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Joseph "Yellow Kid" Weil was one of the most famous swindlers their time. Throughout his career, is believed to have stolen more than $ 8 million. In his first job as a conductor, he realized that their colleagues have been collecting their debts, but keeping a small portion of the money for themselves. Weil started a protection racket – offering not to publicize 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 all day to promote its advantages: one day, he was Dr. Henri Reuel, a geologist noted that the tower and told his guests that he was the representative of a major oil company, so they took the money he gave to "invest in fuel. "The Next day he was director of the Development Corporation Elysée, promising land to innocent believers while denying them in the register and charge abstract. Or was par excellence a chemist who discovered how to copy dollar bills, the promise to increase his fortune, he would multiply your bill and take the spoils after the police arrived.
In his autobiography, Weil wrote:
"The desire to obtain some something for nothing has been too expensive for many people who have dealt with me and against other men, "says Weil." But I discovered that is how it works. The average person, in my opinion, ninety-nine per cent animal and one per cent of men. Four twenty-nine percent which is the animal causes very few problems. However, one man per cent are all our ills. When people learn – I doubt that – 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 in Paris, where he has been with people on his frequent trips between Paris and New York. With his first show people a device that could print notes $ 100. The only problem, he says, is that only prints a bill every six hours. Many people are paid huge sums of money (usually over $ 30,000) for the device. In fact, the device contains two bills hidden real $ 100 – once spat on the machine to produce only of virgin paper. When buyers have discovered that, Alegre was so gone with your money.
In 1925, France was recovering from the war, maintenance of the Eiffel Tower was almost unbearable for the costs of the city of Paris. When Alegre read about it on paper, had the bright 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 help keep the tower and had to sell it for scrap. He told them the secret meeting and all future treatment was due to the fact that the public can become stranded the country's withdrawal from the tower.
Although it seems unlikely that the tower was built it was supposed to be temporary and that past this 18 years after the original date for the removal of the tower. Alegre dealers took a limousine to visit the tower. One of the dealers, Andre Fish was convinced that the story was legitimate and gave money. When he realized he had been deceived, he was too embarrassed to tell the police Lustig and fled with the money. A month later, he returned to Paris to try to scam all over again. This time, he informed the police but escaped Alegre.
At one point, Lustig convinced Al Capone to invest $ 50,000 with him. Put the money in a safe and returned two months later, indicating that the operation had failed. Capone was so impressed by the honesty Lustig gave $ 5,000 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. Date George [Parker Birth: 1870 Died: 1936]
Parker was one of the most audacious frauds in American history. He earned his living selling public places in New York 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 through the road. More than once the police had to pull unsuspecting buyers try to raise the bridge toll booths.
Other places interests public, including selling the original Madison Square Garden, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Grant's tomb and the Statue of Liberty. George had several different methods for sales. When he sold Grant's tomb, often posing as a quick-General's son. Even a game of fake "office" to manage their real estate scams. He 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 the prison Sing Sing. He has spent the last eight years of his life behind bars. He was popular among the guards and other inmates who enjoyed Hearing of their exploits. George is remembered as one of the most successful fraudsters in the history of the United States and one of the forgers the most talented of the story. His exploits have passed into popular culture, giving rise to sentences like "And if you think I have a bridge sell, "a popular way to express the belief that the person is naive.
6. Soapy Smith [Date of Birth: 1860 Death: 1898]
Soapy Smith (born in Jefferson Randolph Smith) was a crook and American gangster who had a hand in major operations of organized crime Denver, Colorado, Creede, Colorado, and Skagway, Alaska from 1879 to 1898. It is perhaps the most famous "safe" bunko man of the Old West. Sometimes, in late 1870 or early 1880, Smith began to deceive multitudes all with a common tactic of Denver called the price of the package of soap Swindle yours.
Jefferson opened the horns and Keister (display on a tripod) on a busy street corner. Piling ordinary cake of soap on top Keister, he described its wonders. Addressing the growing crowd of onlookers, he would retire portfolio and start wrapping paper currency from the dollar a hundred dollars on a small group of bars. Next, each bar ending in plain paper wrapper for hiding money. Pack Joint Money wrapped bars that was money. He then sold the soap to the crowd for a dollar a cake.
A fraudulent planted in the crowd to buy a bar, tearing, and loudly proclaiming that he had won some money, greeting cards in the eyes of all. This action had the desired effect attract package sales. Often victims have purchased several bars before the sale was concluded. In the middle of the sale, Smith would announce that the ticket hundred dollars still on the stack, without buying it. Then the rest will be auctioned to the highest bidder soap.
Through the art of masterful manipulation and sleight of hand, bars of soap wrapped in hiding money and replaced by packets of non-holding of cash. He said that money "earned" went to members of what became known as the band "soap". Soapy was finally shot by a group that defrauded in a game of cards.
7. Eduardo de Valfierno
Eduardo de Valfierno who referred to himself as the Marquis (Marquis) Argentina was a jerk who allegedly orchestrated the theft of the Mona Lisa. Valfierno paid several men to steal the works of art from the Louvre, including museum staff Vincenzo Perugia. On August 21, 1911 Perugia Mona Lisa hidden under his coat and he just through the door.
Before the flight took place, ordered Valfierno French art restorer and forger Yves Chaudron to make six copies of the Mona Lisa. Fakes have been sent to different parts of the world, preparing to match buyers. Valfierno knew once the Mona Lisa was stolen to be more difficult to smuggle copies of past customs. After the flight copies were delivered to their buyers, each thinking they had the original, which had been stolen by them. Due Valfierno just wanted sell fakes, just need the original Mona Lisa to disappear and never contacted again after the Perugia crime. Finally, Perugia been caught trying to sell the painting was given to the Louvre in 1913.
8. James Hogue [Date of birth: 1959]
Hogue is impostor United States entered the most famous Princeton University by posing as a self-taught orphan. In 1986, Hogue enrolled in a school in Palo Alto, Jay Mitchell Huntsman, an orphaned 16, of Nevada. He adopted the identity of a dead child. A local journalist explained suspicious. In 1988, he enrolled at the University Princeton Hogue Indris alias Alexi Santana, a self-taught orphan from Utah. Income deferred for one year because he had been declared guilty of theft of bicycle frames in Utah. Hogue claimed in your application that he had stayed in the Grand Canyon, the sheep and reading the philosophers. He violated his probation in the incoming class. For the next two years, he lived as a member of Santana and the track team. It has also been admitted to the Ivy Club.
In 1991 Hogue true identity became apparent when Renee Pacheco, a student at the Alto High School Palo recognized. He was arrested for defrauding the university for $ 30,000 funding and sentenced to three years imprisonment with probation for five years and 100 hours of community service.
On May 16, 1993 Hogue was again on his new association with the University Harvard. After lying about his identity once again, been able to take a job as a security guard in a museum on the Harvard campus. A few months in office, museum officials realized that the gems of several presentations have been replaced by imitations. Hogue a Somerville police at his home and charged him with robbery in the amount of $ 50,000.
On March 12, 2007 Hogue pleaded guilty to a charge single crime of theft of $ 15,000 in exchange for a sentence of imprisonment not exceeding 10 years, and prosecutors agreed to drop another joint flight of criminal charges.
9. Robert Hendy-Freegard [Date of birth: 1971]
Robert Hendy-Freegard bartender is a British car salesman, a swindler and a fraud who became posed as MI5 agent and fooled several people into hiding for fear of assassination by the IRA. He met his victims on social occasions or as a client at the bar or car dealership where he worked. It would be his "role" as a secret agent of MI5, Special Branch of Scotland Yard or against IRA. He earn more, borrow money and to do His will. He demanded that they cut off contact with family and friends through "testing of loyalty" and living alone in poor condition. seduced five women, saying that wanted to marry. First some of the victims refused to cooperate with police because he had warned that police would be double agents, or MI5 agents perform Another test of loyalty. "
Hendy-Freegard also attracted a personal assistant to newlyweds who take care of their children. He said he was with MI5 and forced him to break off contact with friends and family is not the IRA would kill him. He also took nude pictures of her and threatened to give her husband if she did not cooperate. She had to change his name and say to the returning officer act because she has been sexually abused in childhood. Their loyalty tests, including sleeping in Heathrow airport and park benches for several nights and pretending to be a Witness Jehovah so that their bosses at MI5 would allow them to marry.
In 2002, Scotland Yard and the FBI organized a sting operation. 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 mother to Heathrow Airport, where police have apprehended. He denied all the accusations and said they were part of a conspiracy against him and continued the story in the subsequent trial. On June 23, 2005, after an eight-month trial, Blackfriars Crown Court sentenced Robert Hendy-Freegard of two counts of kidnapping, theft of 10 and eight of deception. On September 6, 2005 was sentenced to perpetuity. The police have certainly found all the victims. On April 25, 2007, the BBC reported that Robert Hendy-Freegard appealed the conviction and won removal. This means that the life sentence be overturned, but it will be another nine years for other crimes. It could be free in late 2007.
10. Bernard Cornfeld [Date of Birth: 1927 Death: 1995]
Bernard Cornfeld was a leading international financial and business who sold investments in U.S. mutual funds. Born in Turkey. When moving to U.S., first worked as a social worker, but he became a salesman of mutual funds in the 1950s. Despite suffering from a stutter, who had a natural gift for selling, and when the parent of a school friend died, the two have used the insurance money of $ 3,000 to purchase and implement an age and weight guessing booth at the Fair Coney Island.
In the 1960s, Cornfeld founded his own company selling mutual funds, foreign investor Services (IOS) which incorporated outside the United States with funds in Canada and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. Although offcially headquarters in Geneva offices main operation of the IOS were in Ferney-Voltaire, France, near the Swiss border in Geneva was merely a means avoid problems in obtaining work permits for employees of many Swiss. Over the past ten years, has collected more than 2.5 IOS one billion U.S. dollars, which Cornfeld a personal fortune of more than $ 100 million. Cornfeld himself is known for conspicuous consumption and lavish parties. Socially he was generous and jovial.
A group of IOS 300 employees complained in the pockets of the Swiss authorities Cornfeld and his co-founders of profits a share issue raised workers in 1969. Consequently, he was accused of fraud in 1973 by the Swiss authorities. When Cornfeld traveled to Geneva, the Swiss authorities have arrested. It has been 11 months in a Swiss prison before being released on bail of $ 600,000 bail. He returned to Beverly Hills, who live less ostentatious than in previous years. He developed an obsession for health foods and vitamins, has waived the red meat and rarely drank alcohol. He suffered a stroke and died a break aneurysm February 27, 1995 in London, England.
The grandfather of all con men in history is Bernard Madoff, brain the most important investment scam. This report from Reuters about his trial and conviction:
"Bernard Madoff was sentenced Monday to 150 years in prison – the maximum penalty the judge may give him "extraordinarily bad" Wall Street crimes increase in investment and frauds egregious.
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"Fleeced investors in the room applauded and cheered when the judge issued the sentence.
Madoff 71 years, was passive, hands folded size, showing no reaction when he heard the sentence that sent him 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 counts including securities fraud, money laundering and perjury in March.
"Here, the message must be sent to Mr. Madoff crimes were extraordinarily bad, "said U.S. District Judge Denny Chin rejected defense for a sentence Forgiving, 12." Abuse of trust has been mass.
"I do not feel that Mr. Madoff has done everything he could or that everything he knows."
Manager fund gray hair was dressed in his signature dark gray suit, white shirt and tie instead of a prison uniform.
Disgraced financier Sat passively at all times and the middle ear that his victims called him a "beast", an "animal" and a criminal. "
He apologized to them for a turn about 250 people in the courtroom.
"I'm living with the pain, torment, for the rest of my life," he said quietly. I live in a state worried about the pain and suffering they have created. "
Madoff, who has been accused of defrauding investors around the world outside as much $ 65 billion, said: "In my business, when you make a mistake bargaining, I hope you made a trading error is accepted. My mistake was much more serious. I made a misjudgment. "
CAUGHT by the financial crisis
December Madoff arrest came as investors felt the weight in the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of 1930 Great.
This case has generated widespread criticism of U.S. Securities And Exchange Commission who has been accused of lack of red flags that would have the curtain on its asset management activities.
Nobody knew where he will serve his Madoff sentence in what prosecutors described as fraud in the world of retail investors and wealthy organizations, financial institutions and charities.
The court heard statements Chin heartbreaking Madoff nine victims, some of whom said they had lost all their savings, have been forced to sell their homes or had to seek government help to buy food.
"I just hope that his sentence is long enough his prison cell will become your coffin, "said Michael Schwartz, 33, who said his family had been robbed of care savings his mentally disabled brother.
The White House said the judge had sent a strong signal to those 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 empire of investment was a scam.
Prosecutors said Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities was 65 billion U.S. dollars in accounts receivable weeks before his arrest, but the liquidation of the President of the company until now only been able to collect 1.2 billion dollars to repay investors.
Until 170 billion dollars flowed through the principle of Madoff has in recent decades. Madoff symbolically sentenced to pay this amount as compensation.
If a sentence much lower Madoff reportedly sent to prison for life, Chin said he deserved the maximum, usually imposed on the bosses of organized crime.
"The fraud here has been unbelievable," the judge said.
A law professor has was surprised by the sentence, but you would have a deterrent effect.
"I like to think the mini-Madoff there might think that what happened today has something to do with them, but I suspect most of them, "said Jayne Barnard University William and Mary Williamsburg, Virginia.
Madoff lawyer said no decision had been taken on the appeal of the sentence.
No family members came to court Madoff. They have not attended any of his appearances before the court earlier.
The judge said he had not received a single letter on behalf Madoff, the testimony of a good deed or charity. "The absence of a Such support is said, "Chin.
Ruth Madoff woman, 68, Has not been charged with any crime, but was reviled by disappointed investors, 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 her cheating husband.
"From the moment I learned my husband who had committed a huge fraud, I had two thoughts – first, that so many people who trust him would be ruined financially and emotionally, and, secondly, that my life with the man I have known for over 50 years was over, "he said.
Madoff said he acted alone. The only other person is accused of criminal external auditor.
Madoff brother, Peter, and his son, Mark and Andrew, were executives at the unit brokerage business. They said they had no knowledge or management of assets through.
Madoff and his wife have agreed to sell three properties and other luxury goods and items value. Revenues from sales of assets will be distributed to defrauded investors.
Ruth Madoff will end up with $ 2.5 million after losing $ 80 million claim of assets, including the couple's apartment in Manhattan penthouse.
Madoff, investors in the courtroom that he could offer no excuses, saying he tried to undo their crimes, but "the more I tried, the more I dig a hole for me."
Investors said the apology left cold.
"There are some something very pathological. There are always 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) "
Fraud things in our collective nerves of business proposals sincerely do not get a look in the prospects of most foreigners once the IP address shows Nigeria: But one fact remains – the victims scams are greedy, gullible and proportionally or criminal regimes 4 and 2 in the fall. The victim willingly or unwillingly by acceptance proposals to get rich quick, commits the crime as an unlikely (?) complications.
According to Wikipedia, "The first known use Human term confidence "in English was in 1849 and has been used by the American press during the trial of William Thompson USA. Thompson talks with strangers until he asked if they had the confidence to lend him their watches, then he left on foot with clock, which was captured when the victim recognized in the street. "
The respected online encyclopedia, explains further: "Deception exploit the typical human qualities such as greed, dishonesty, vanity, honesty, compassion, credulity and naivete. The common factor is that the brand is based on good faith from the crook. If because there is no typical profile for swindlers, neither is it one of their victims. Almost anyone can fall prey to fraudulent crimes.
Although victims of investment fraud high yield can be a level that exceeds the greed of their care and the willingness to believe what they want to believe. However, not all fraud victims are greedy, taking risk, people looking for self-deception to make money quickly. Neither are all innocent victims of fraud, uneducated, or those elderly. A brand of selfish or dishonest may try to cheat on swindler, only to discover he has been manipulated to lose since beginning. This is a general principle in confidence tricks that there is a saying among con men that "you can not cheat an honest man. "
The scam artist often works with one or more accomplices called hooks, to help manipulate the mark into accepting the plan of the fraudster. In a classic scam, the mark was to believe he will be able to make money or other prize by doing some research. Accomplices may pretend to be strangers who have benefited from the implementation of the mission in the past.
Wikipedia also contains in its own register of world renowned artists, some of them have been mentioned in the preceding paragraphs above, and obviously no of them were from Nigeria or in Africa, for the case:
Notable fraudsters
Born 18th century
Gregor MacGregor (1786-1845) – Scottish crook who tried to attract investment and settlers for a Poyais country that does not exist.
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) – With 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 crook, famous for gold mining scams and Hotel in Death Valley known as the Castle Scotty.
Smith soapy (1860-1898) – Trust the leader of the gang, which operated in Denver, Colorado, Creede, Colorado, and Skagway, Alaska
William Thompson (active 1840-1849) – U.S. criminal whose deceptions caused the term coined prisoners.
Weil, Joseph (1875-1976) – One of the famous men tube America in his time.
Cassie Chadwick (1857-1907) – United States defrauded several banks to assert billion 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 of being a pyramid scheme.
Richard Eaton (1937-1979) – Con, salon owner and general manager of the garment factory and a Moo Moo Vedda member of the Lucchese crime family.
David Hampton (1964-2003) – Inspiration for the work and the film Six Degrees of Separation
Konrad Kujau (1938-2000) – German forger of Hitler's alleged diaries.
Eduardo de Valfierno - No memorial Argentine allegedly orchestrated the theft of the Mona Lisa in 1911.
Living people
Frank Abagnale (1948) - U.S. check forger and impostor, his autobiography, Catch Me If You Can, was made movies.
Peter Foster (1962) – Australian crook with convictions and prison sentences of three continents for fraud and money laundering, fraud known by Bai Lin loss weight of tea and participation in property transactions with Cherie Blair.
Gerhartsreiter Karl Christian (1961) – born Bavaria crook who, for nearly two decades, said a member of the wealthy Rockefeller family.
Robert Hendy-Freegard (1971) – Columbia who kidnapped people by posing as an agent of MI5 and the defrauded money.
James Arthur Hogue (1959) – USA impostor who entered the most famous Princeton University by posing as a self-taught orphans.
Clifford Irving (1930) – writer United States, better known as a fake "autobiography entitled" Howard Hughes.
Samuel Israel III (1959) – Ran Fraudulent Former Bayou Hedge Fund Group, faked suicide.
Bon Levi (1943) – Ron and Ronald Frederick With Aka. Without doubt Australia fraudster knows he deceived the majority of Australians and citizens of the United States to invest in franchise businesses scam. He was imprisoned in Australia and the United States.
Bernard Madoff, Lawrence (1938) - former president of the Nasdaq, who admitted running a world record 65 billion U.S. dollars in the Ponzi scheme. Under the direction of the hedge fund Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, until his arrest 2008. In March 2009 has been declared guilty of eleven federal offenses.
Matt the Knife (1981) – born in card U.S. credit cheat and thief that defrauded companies, casinos, and at least one crime family of the Mafia.
Barry Minkow (1967) – American businessman. His company, ZZZZ Best, investors an estimated $ 100 million dollars before he passed seven years in prison for fraud and other crimes.
Semyon Mogilevich (1946) – is a billionaire crime boss and an artist by the estimated global European and U.S. federal agencies for law enforcement for the "boss of bosses" of most unions in the Russian mafia in the world.
Lou Pearlman (1954) – U.S. entrepreneur and manager of boy bands, sentenced to 25 years to operate an investment combined with the Ponzi.
Casey Serin (1982) – Mortgage confessed swindler has become "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 million 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, be reasonable to condemn the Nigerians for the world of inculturation West in the quasi-criminal almost every aspect of contemporary life. Western films in Nigeria and Africa will host all types of immorality to This foreign. People use three-piece suits and long hot scammers have recently started to use religion to update scam their thought processes. 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 indicated above, the Internet and mobile technologies came to these shores in recent years 90. Before that, West will continue misleading mislead people with different systems and have not been accused of being Nigerians. They hacked the computer systems by viruses and other unwanted things done against humanity. 95% of Nigerians have no access to the Internet, but we are talking about the schemes Internet fraud is attributed to wonder Nigerians.
Many of these e-mails are also sent to most of us (the 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 was not play games or deceive. It is greed and trying to reap what you sow it. Or someone send an email saying that someone dies and leaves money on a fictitious bank account and needs your help to get out of yours. I would not buy this idea of a half percent, I'm not greedy. In my little research, I realized that these systems are actually inherited from the scam western world. Its return, as the sender 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 junk millions with the push of the button the average Nigerian is a cheat as much as the singular act of the action is Omar Faruk Abdulmutallab Christmas Day 2009 did not all suicide terrorists 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 I've never been a representation of what they get from their news sources.
My advice for always-phobia: Never try to enter a building through the windows when the door is open. Greed and selfishness is a condition sine qua non for being a scam victim.
My case yet.
PS
This testimony is true inboxes Nigeria to me by a white American, one of my friends on Facebook:
March 15 at 2:54 p.m.
Hello Henry – Please tell me about the fan page. Yes I know and understand that – it's a shame that some have not met with Nigeria and bad / assumtions ignorant about them. There are con artists and crooks 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 of them ever Nigerians.
I lived in Southern California and my son had a medical emergency. With pay for it if 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 have 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 a rare condition (so we found ourselves in Montana).
They refiananced my house. I had to pay $ 6,000 to a lawyer just to keep my child home. Was Henry ridiculous as his problem was with the knee and his main complaint is that he was overweight. It was not life-threatening anyway I had already taken 10 different doctors and had the proof!
Then they refinanced again! They said would be easier with my bankruptcy, and having already found a loan should be 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 too.
Everyone in office has been very good to me. All said they were praying for me and my children.
Finally sold the house that the surgeon I could find who knew my son was working on here in Montana.
After have left California, I stopped at his office. I wanted to thank personally all I had done for us. His confidence and kindness left the family together. They have also been very fair with their prices and trade.
I stopped and went, and was so surprised they were all from Africa, Nigeria. They had been reared in England. And the wife of the owner to this day remains the wife African most beautiful I've seen 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 a hobo on a train (True story) and his family were rich, no matter if my children were alive or dead.
These Nigerians saved my family – my children – the thing most valuable in the face of the earth for me. Never, never, never 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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