Victor Lustig. He was a con artist in the early 20th century. Most Famous for selling the Eifel Tower Twice.

Imagine being a banker in a small town in Missouri. You have been trying to sell a broken down farm that the bank repossessed a couple of years ago but you haven't had any luck. One day a man approaches you and offers you $22,000 in Liberty bonds for the almost worthless farm. He claims that he is from Austria and after the First World War he felt the need to leave and start a new …showed first 75 words of 1288 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1288 total…of his life and died in 1947 of pneumonia. It is said that these cons could not be performed today. I personally disagree with this. A con artist is not limited to new technological advances and anti counterfeiting procedures. A con artist is part of your base character. I don't think that Victor Lustig would have gotten away with as many scams as he did but he still would have been a con artist either way.