My Dad Gave Me These Because He Feels a Sense of Duty to Me.

Cassie Schmidt pretended to be Andrew Carnegie's daughter for eight years. She received $14 billion from her father when he died, but she couldn't tell anyone about it. When word of the con got out in Cleveland, banks started offering her financial services. But they were using forged securities as collateral and charging outrageous interest rates. "I think we got into the reason for secrecy," says author David Frum.