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释义

  1. Born or active in the 17th century

  2. Born or active in the 18th century

  3. Born or active in the 19th century

  4. Born or active in the 20th century

  5. Living people

  6. See also

  7. References

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This is a list of notable individuals who exploited confidence tricks.

Born or active in the 17th century

  • William Chaloner (1650 – 1699): Serial counterfeiter and confidence trickster proven guilty by Sir Isaac Newton[1]

Born or active in the 18th century

  • Gregor MacGregor (1786–1845): Scottish con man who tried to attract investment and settlers for the non-existent country of "Poyais"[2]
  • Jeanne of Valois-Saint-Rémy (1756-1791): Chief conspirator in the Affair of the Diamond Necklace, which further tarnished the French royal family's already-poor reputation and, along with other causes, eventually led to the French Revolution[3]

Born or active in the 19th century

  • George Appo (1856-1930): Operated in New York and was involved in green goods scams. Wrote an autobiography and also had a biography written about him which discusses prison conditions and various other socio-economic conditions in the later 19th century.
  • Lou Blonger (1849–1924): Organized a massive ring of con men in Denver in the early 1900s[4]
  • C. L. Blood (1835–1908) American patent medicine huckster, fraudster, and blackmailer[5]
  • Cassie Chadwick (1857–1907) Canadian woman who defrauded banks out of millions by pretending to be the illegitimate daughter (and heir) of Andrew Carnegie[6]
  • Eduardo de Valfierno (1850–1931): Argentine con man who posed as a marqués and allegedly masterminded the theft of the Mona Lisa in 1911.
  • Lord Gordon Gordon (1840 – 1874) British man who defrauded $1 million from Jay Gould, who was fighting for control of the Erie Railroad.
  • Bertha Heyman (born c. 1851) Active in the United States in the late 19th century[7][8]
  • Canada Bill Jones (c.1837–1880): King of the three-card monte men[4]
  • Daniel Levey (c. 1875-?): American swindler and gambler, specialized in passing fake checks and stealing goods under the pretense of brokering sales for their owners
  • Victor Lustig (1890–1947): Born in Bohemia (today's Czech Republic) and known as "the man who sold the Eiffel Tower twice"[9]
  • William McCloundy (1859–19??) Convicted of selling the Brooklyn Bridge to a tourist.
  • George C. Parker (1860–1936): U.S. con man who sold New York monuments to tourists, including most famously the Brooklyn Bridge, which he sold twice a week for years[10]
  • Charles Ponzi (1882–1949): "Ponzi scheme" is a "get rich fast" fraud named after him[11]
  • Soapy Smith (1860–1898): Jefferson Randolph Smith II organized bunco and crime boss in Denver and Creede, Colorado, and Skagway, Alaska, in the 1880s and 1890s[12]
  • Adele Spitzeder (1832-1895): German actress that arguably was the first to perpetrate a ponzi scheme between 1869 and 1872 when she defrauded thousands of people by promising them 10% return of interest monthly which she paid with the money of new investors
  • William Thompson (fl. 1840–1849): U.S. criminal whose deceptions caused the term confidence man to be coined[13]
  • Joseph Weil (1875–1976): American con man[14]
  • Fernando Wood (1812-1881): U.S. Congressman, Mayor of New York City, and a con artist who defrauded his brother-in-law and three others of $20,000 in a scheme involving the charter of a ship to sell goods during the California Gold Rush.[15]

Born or active in the 20th century

  • Bernie Cornfeld (1927–1995): Ran the Investors Overseas Service, alleged to be a Ponzi scheme[16]
  • Ferdinand Waldo Demara (1921–1982): Famed as "the Great Imposter"
  • Harry Jelinek (1905–1986): Czech con artist alleged to have sold the Karlstejn Castle to American industrialists.
  • Sante Kimes (1934–2014): Convicted of fraud, robbery, murder, and over 100 other crimes along with her son Kenneth Kimes, Jr.[17]
  • Don Lapre (1964–2011): American TV pitchman known for peddling various get-rich-quick schemes
  • Daniel Levey (c. 1875-?): American swindler and gambler, specialized in passing fake checks and stealing goods under the pretense of brokering sales for their owners
  • David Hampton (1964–2003): American actor and impostor who posed as Sidney Poitier's son "David" in 1983, which inspired a play and a film, Six Degrees of Separation
  • Gaston Means (1879–1938): American con-man and associate of the Ohio Gang
  • Jerry Tarbot {?–?} Claimed he was amnesic victim of World War I
  • Edgar Laplante (?–1944) Claimed to be "Chief White Elk." Stole from aristocratic European women and gave away large quantities of the money in cash. Presented to Mussolini as a visiting foreign dignitary. [18][19][20]
  • Alvin Clarence "Titanic Thompson" Thomas (1892–1974): Gambler, golf hustler, proposition bet conman
  • Natwarlal (1912–2009): Legendary Indian con man known for having repeatedly "sold" the Taj Mahal, the Red Fort, the Rashtrapati Bhavan and the Parliament House of India[21]
  • Riley Shepard (1918-2009): Country musician who used numerous pseudonyms to break the terms of his recording contracts and defraud investors.[22]
  • Charles Ponzi (1882–1949): Italian American businessman and con artist
  • Lou Pearlman (1954–2016): Former boy band impresario, convicted for perpetrating a large and long-running Ponzi scheme[23]
  • Reed Slatkin (1949–2015): American investor and co-founder of EarthLink
  • Alan Conway (1934–1998): American con man best known for impersonating film director Stanley Kubrick

Living people

  • Frank Abagnale, Jr. (1948): U.S. check forger and impostor turned FBI consultant; his autobiography was made into the movie Catch Me If You Can.[24] Abagnale impersonated a PanAm pilot, a doctor, a lawyer, and a teacher to illegally make over $2.5 million[25]
  • Sergio Cragnotti (1940): Former Italian industrialist and president of a football team who masterminded the Cirio bankruptcy
  • Ali Dia (1965): Senegalese semi-professional footballer, duped the manager of Premier League team Southampton into signing him after posing as World Player of The Year George Weah in a phone call in which he gave himself a fake reference[26]
  • Marc Dreier (1950): Founder of attorney firm Dreier LLP. Convicted of selling approximately $700 million worth of fictitious promissory notes, and other crimes[27]
  • Kevin Foster (1958/59): British investment fraudster, convicted of running a Ponzi scheme[28]
  • Randy Glass, who defrauded jewelry traders and became involved in the entrapment of undercover arms dealers.[29]
  • Robert Hendy-Freegard (1971): Briton who kidnapped people by impersonating an MI5 agent and conned them out of money[30]
  • James Arthur Hogue (1959): U.S. impostor who most famously entered Princeton University by posing as a self-taught orphan[31]
  • Jho Low (1981-?): Claimed to be an financial expert and trusted by Malaysian Ex prime minister, Najib Razak, in managing 1MBD, a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund. He abused his position and committed a grand heist, stealing its money in billions of US dollars. He is one of the reason that caused Malaysia to be in mega debt.[32]
  • Brian Kim (1975/76): Hedge fund manager who pleaded guilty to Ponzi scheme, passport fraud, and other crimes[33][34]
  • Steven Kunes (1956): Former television screenwriter convicted for forgery, grand theft, and false use of financial information;[35] he attempted to sell a faked interview with J. D. Salinger to People magazine[36][37]
  • Simon Lovell (1957): English comedy magician, card shark actor and con man
  • Bernard Madoff (1938): Former American stock broker and non-executive chairman of the NASDAQ stock market who admitted to the operation of the largest Ponzi scheme in history[38]
  • Gina Marks (1973): American "psychic" con artist.[39]
  • Matt the Knife (1987): American-born con artist, card cheat and pickpocket who, from the ages of approximately 14 through 21, bilked dozens of casinos, corporations and at least one Mafia crime family[40][41][42]
  • Rudy Kurniawan (wine connoisseur and collector) (b. 1976): Pulled off the biggest wine scam in history. Famously consigned several lots of Clos St. Denis from Domaine Ponsot from vintages long prior to any recorded production of Ponsot wines from that vineyard.
  • Barry Minkow (1967): Known for the ZZZZ Best scam[43]
  • Richard Allen Minsky (1944): Scammed female victims for sex by pretending to be jailed family members over the phone[44]
  • Ian Mitchell: Posed as an heir of a wealthy Jamaican family and defrauded investors of hundreds of thousand of dollars.[45]
  • Jim Norman (musician) (2009): Used the ESPAVO Foundation and Thrum Records to defraud millions of dollars in a cross-border advance fee scam, and was eventually convicted of conspiracy to commit wire fraud[46]
  • Christophe Rocancourt (1967): French con artist who scammed affluent people by masquerading in turn as a French nobleman, the heir to the Rockefeller family or family member of a celebrity.
  • Steven Jay Russell (1957): Georgia police officer who impersonated several individuals to escape from a Texas prison; embezzled from the North American Medical Management corporation; inspired the movie I Love You Phillip Morris[47]
  • Ong Kean Swan (1982): Ran multi-level pyramid schemes in China, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan, walked away with an estimated US$35 million.[48]
  • Calisto Tanzi (1938): Former Italian industrialist and president of Parmalat, which he led to one of the costliest bankruptcies in history
  • Alessandro Zarrelli (1984): Italian Amateur footballer who posed as a fictitious Italian Football Federation official offering a professional player (himself) for a cultural exchange to various clubs in the United Kingdom; he signed with one club and trained with several more[49]

See also

  • Impostor
  • Category:Fictional con artists

References

1. ^Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; Paul Hopkins and Stuart Handley, 'Chaloner, William (d. 1699)'
2. ^{{Cite web |publisher=The Scottish Executive |url=http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/News-Extras/docJan2005 |title=Document of the Month January 2005 |date=January 2005 |accessdate=19 August 2007}}
3. ^{{cite book|last1=Haslip|first1=Joan|title=Marie Antoinette|date=1987|publisher=Weidenfeld and Nicolson|location=New York, NY|isbn=9781555841836}}
4. ^1 {{cite book |last1=Maurer |first1=David W. |title=The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man and the Confidence Game |publisher=Bobbs Merrill |year=1940 |oclc=1446571 |postscript=}}
5. ^{{cite news |author= |title=A Man of Ominous Name |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3461943/dr_blood_and_the_sawtelles/ |newspaper=The Inter Ocean |location= |date=1890-02-19 |accessdate=2015-10-26 }}
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8. ^{{citation |title=Grifters, Bunco Artists & Flimflam Men |last=Jay |first=Ricky |authorlink=Ricky Jay |journal=Wired |date=February 2011 |volume=19 |issue=2 |page=92 }}.
9. ^{{cite journal |last1=Johnson |first1=James F. |last2=Miller |first2=Floyd |title=The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower |publisher=Doubleday |year=1961 |postscript=}}
10. ^{{cite news |publisher=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/27/nyregion/thecity/for-you-half-price.html |title=For You, Half Price |accessdate=19 August 2007 |first=Gabriel |last=Cohen |date=27 November 2005}}
11. ^{{cite journal |last1=Zuckoff |first1=Mitchell |title=Ponzi's Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend |publisher=Random House |date=March 8, 2005 |isbn=1-4000-6039-7 |postscript=}}
12. ^Smith, Jeff (2009). Alias Soapy Smith: The Life and Death of a Scoundrel, Klondike Research. {{ISBN|0-9819743-0-9}}
13. ^{{cite news |newspaper=New York Herald |url=http://chnm.gmu.edu/lostmuseum/lm/328/ |title=Arrest of the Confidence Man |year=1849 |accessdate=19 August 2007}}
14. ^{{cite book |last1=Weil |first1=Joseph |title="Yellow Kid" Weil: The Autobiography of America's Master Swindler |publisher=Ziff-Davis |year=1948 |isbn=0-7812-8661-1 |postscript=}}
15. ^{{cite book|last=Allen|first=Oliver E.|title=The Tiger: The Rise and Fall of Tammany Hall|date=1993|p=63|publisher=Addison-Wesley Publishing Company|isbn=0-201-62463-X|url=https://www.questia.com/library/100781519/the-tiger-the-rise-and-fall-of-tammany-hall }}
16. ^{{Cite web |publisher=Brian Trumbore, StocksandNews.com |url=http://www.stocksandnews.com/wall-street-history.php?aid=MTA0N19XUw== |title=The Fund Industry's Black Eye |date=2002-04-19 |accessdate=19 August 2007}}
17. ^{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B04E5DA1F3CF931A15750C0A9639C8B63&ref=santekimes |title=Life Terms For Pair |newspaper=The New York Times |date=2005-03-22 |accessdate=2011-04-10}}
18. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/the-most-shameless-con-artist-of-the-jazz-age-knew-that-the-biggest-lies-work-best/2018/08/08/ec328e36-9a6a-11e8-8d5e-c6c594024954_story.html|title=Book Review : The most shameless con artist of the Jazz Age knew that the biggest lies work best|last=Dirda|first=Michael|date=August 8, 2018|website=Washington Post|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2018-08-14}}
19. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.powells.com/post/original-essays/white-elk-black-shirt|title=White Elk, Black Shirt by Paul Willetts|last=Willetts|first=Paul|date=August 8, 2018|website=Powell's|language=en-US|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2018-08-14}}
20. ^{{Cite web|url=https://odnp.uoregon.edu/2018/07/21/con-man-edgar-laplantes-oregon-connections-discovered-in-new-publication/|title=Con-man Edgar Laplante's Oregon connections discovered in new publication|last=sseymore@uooregon.edu|first=|date=July 21, 2018|website=Oregon Digital Newspaper Program|language=en-US|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2018-08-14}}
21. ^{{cite news|title=Natwarlal leaves ’em guessing even in death|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/India/Natwarlal-leaves-em-guessing-even-in-death/Article1-437405.aspx|accessdate=3 August 2012|newspaper=Hindustan Times|date=29 July 2009}}
22. ^{{cite web|title=The Cowboy Philosopher: A Tale Of Obsession, Scams, And Family|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=679233260|website=National Public Radio: Hidden Brain|accessdate=14 January 2019}}
23. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN2139523420080521|title=Boy band mogul Pearlman sentenced to 25 years|last=Liston|first=Barbara|date=2008-05-21|accessdate=2009-04-09|publisher=Reuters}}
24. ^{{cite book |author= Frank W. Abagnale Jr. |authorlink= Frank Abagnale |author2=Stan Redding |year= 1980 |title=Catch Me if You Can |location= New York |publisher=Simon & Schuster |isbn=0-671-64091-7}}
25. ^{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43542209|title=Catch me if you can : the amazing true story of the youngest and most daring con man in the history of fun and profit|last=1948-|first=Abagnale, Frank W.,|date=2000|publisher=Broadway Books|others=Redding, Stan,|isbn=0767905385|edition=1st Broadway books trade pbk.|location=New York|oclc=43542209}}
26. ^{{cite news|title= Five terrible debuts to make Fernando Torres feel better |first=Thom |last=Gibbs|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/chelsea/8309048/Five-terrible-debuts-to-make-Fernando-Torres-feel-better.html | location=London |date=7 February 2011| work=The Daily Telegraph}}
27. ^{{cite news|url=http://money.cnn.com/2009/03/19/news/hedge_fund_fraud/index.htm?postversion=2009031914|title=N.Y. lawyer arraigned in alleged $700M fraud|publisher=CNNMoney.com|date=March 19, 2009|accessdate=2011-02-14}}
28. ^{{Cite web |publisher=Serious Fraud Office |url=http://www.sfo.gov.uk/press-room/latest-press-releases/press-releases-2010/kf-concept-%C2%A334-million-ponzi-scheme-organiser-convicted.aspx |title=KF Concept £34 million Ponzi scheme organiser convicted |date=9 March 2010 |accessdate=7 July 2011 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100313140656/http://www.sfo.gov.uk/press-room/latest-press-releases/press-releases-2010/kf-concept-%C2%A334-million-ponzi-scheme-organiser-convicted.aspx |archivedate=13 March 2010 |df= }}
29. ^{{cite news | last = Mintz | first = John | title = U.S. Reopens Arms Case In Probe for Taliban Role | publisher = The Washington Post | date = 2002-08-02 | url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A33797-2002Aug1 | accessdate = 2009-08-16}}
30. ^{{cite news |publisher=BBC |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nottinghamshire/4114640.stm |title=Fake spy guilty of kidnapping con| date=2005-06-23 |accessdate=19 August 2007}}
31. ^{{cite news |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/25/nyregion/princeton-student-gets-jail-sentence.html |title=Princeton 'Student' Gets Jail Sentence |date=1992-10-25 |accessdate=19 August 2007}}
32. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-24/malaysia-s-1-trillion-ringgit-government-debt-explained|title=Malaysia's 1 Trillion Ringgit Government Debt Explained|date=2019-03-07|access-date=2019-03-09|language=en}}
33. ^{{cite news |url=http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-04-20/hedge-fund-founder-kim-gets-five-to-15-years-for-scheme|title=Hedge Fund Founder Kim Gets Five to 15 Years for Scheme|work=Businessweek.com|accessdate=October 13, 2014}}
34. ^{{cite news |url=http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20120316/FINANCE/120319916/ex-ny-hedge-fund-head-who-fled-admits-4m-swindle|title=Ex-NY hedge fund head who fled admits $4M swindle|date=March 16, 2012|work=Crain's New York Business|accessdate=October 13, 2014}}
35. ^{{cite news|last1=Hayden|first1=Tyler|title=A Tale Stranger Than Fiction|url=http://www.independent.com/news/2011/mar/31/tale-stranger-fiction/|accessdate=4 August 2014|work=Santa Barbara Independent|date=31 March 2011}}
36. ^Associated Press "Lawsuit by Salinger muzzles his imitator" Ottawa Citizen November 5, 1982, p. 65, col. 1
37. ^{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/11/06/arts/jd-salinger-in-accord-on-impersonation-suit.html | work=The New York Times | title=J.D. Salinger in Accord On Impersonation Suit | date=6 November 1982}}
38. ^{{cite news |publisher=Bloomberg |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=atUk.QnXAvZY |title=Madoff Confessed $50 Billion Fraud Before FBI Arrest |date=2008-12-12 |accessdate=26 August 2010}}
39. ^{{cite web|last1=McAfee|first1=David G.|title=“Psychic” Convicted of Stealing $340K from Her Clients, Blames Racism Against Gypsies|url=http://www.patheos.com/blogs/nosacredcows/2018/02/psychic-convicted-stealing-340k-clients-blames-racism-gypsies/|website=Patheos.com|publisher=Patheos|accessdate=13 March 2018|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180313112232/http://www.patheos.com/blogs/nosacredcows/2018/02/psychic-convicted-stealing-340k-clients-blames-racism-gypsies/|archivedate=13 March 2018|date=11 February 2018|dead-url=no}}
40. ^{{cite episode |title=American Voices |series=American Voices |airdate=October 12, 2008}}
41. ^{{cite journal |last=Schwartz |first=Dan |title=From Grifter To Guinness |magazine=Providence Monthly |page=14 |date=August 2007}}
42. ^{{cite journal |last=Perry |first=Rachel |title=Matt The Knife: Fire-Teething Never Looked So Good |magazine=Play (Philadelphia Edition) |pages=10–12 |date=January 17, 2007}}
43. ^{{cite episode |title=It Takes One To Know One |series=60 Minutes |first=Rebecca |last=Leung|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/news/it-takes-one-to-know-one-19-05-2005/ |airdate=May 22, 2005}}
44. ^{{cite news |last=Gorman |first=Anna |url=http://articles.latimes.com/2001/dec/01/local/me-10262 |title=Rapist in Sex Scam Case Sentenced to Life in Prison |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |accessdate=2010-06-27 |date=2001-12-01}}
45. ^{{cite web|url=https://nypost.com/2019/01/06/con-man-scammed-investors-over-100k-at-swanky-manhattan-parties/|title=Con man scammed investors over $100K at swanky Manhattan parties|work=nypost.com|first1=Rebecca|last1=Rosenberg|first2=Sarah|last2=Trefethen|date=January 6, 2019|accessdate=January 7, 2019}}
46. ^https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/newyork/press-releases/2013/canadian-citizen-sentenced-in-manhattan-federal-court-to-20-years-in-prison-in-connection-with-7-million-advance-fee-fraud-scheme
47. ^{{cite news |work=Texas Observer |url=http://www.texasobserver.org/archives/item/14003-1394-book-review-the-master-manipulator|title=Master Manipulator|date=2003-07-03 |accessdate=19 August 2007}}
48. ^{{Cite news|title=大马王子在澳门狂赢1.3亿然后大撒币？真相原来是丨无路可套 |publisher=知乎专栏 |language=zh |date=15 July 2018 |url=https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/38007821 |archive-url=https://archive.is/PHxNQ?url=https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/38007821 |archive-date=27 August 2018 |dead-url=no |df=dmy}}
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