
A Mega-Con Man for the Ages: Joseph "Yellow Kid" Weil
Ridiculous Crime
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How to Get a Letterhead From a German Government Bank
Hitler's one of his last big admitted scams was with a wealthy American woman who owned a mine in Arizona. So, well, yeah, remember back. Oh, that's true. Yeah. With the mines and the gems. The gem field. He gets Buckminster on board as his assistant and the two. go to Arizona all in this lady's dime like an expense account. They're like dirty rotten scounders on us. Can we give you something as collateral like here?Yeah. Here's a necklace. Can you hold and it looks really expensive, but it's worthless. But they're like amused by this. It was a good one.
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