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	Victor Lustig - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Victor Lustig (January 4, 1890 – March 11, 1947) is held to have been one of the most talented confidence tricksters who ever lived.
		Victor Lustig was born in Bohemia, but soon headed west, demonstrating his talents even in his early twenties.
		Lustig first arrived in the United States at the port of New York City, onboard the SS Badenia on April 8, 1907 (port of departure was Hamburg, Germany on March 23, 1907), and calling himself Count Victor Lustig, conducted a number of scams.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Victor_Lustig (1194 words)

	Science Show - 6/04/2002: Eiffel, Marconi & Count Victor Lustig
		Victor Lustig or as he liked to call himself, Count Victor Lustig as will be seen understood the value of the Eiffel Tower better than most.
		Lustig saw some publicity about that in the paper so he obtained some stationery from the Ministry of Posts which was responsible for the tower's maintenance and sent confidential letters to five of France's biggest scrap metal dealers inviting them to an important meeting.
		There they were met by an accomplice of Lustig's and ushered into a stately room where Lustig himself, posing as an officer of the Ministry, swore them to secrecy before explaining that the government had at last decided that the cost of repairing the tower was too high and that it was to be demolished.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/science/ss/stories/s526787.htm (799 words)

	AIGA - Alvin Lustig (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Alvin Lustig's contributions to the design of books and book jackets, magazines, interiors, and textiles as well as his teachings would have made him a credible candidate for the AIGA Lifetime Achievement award when he was alive.
		Lustig is known for his expertise in virtually all the design disciplines, which he seamlessly integrated into his life.
		Lustig's subtle economy was a counterpoint to the industry's propensity for clutter and confusion.
	www.aiga.org /content.cfm?contentalias=alvinlustig (2100 words)

	What, Where, When, Who, Why and How [5WH] for kids
		If Victor Lustig was the king of conmen with forty-five known aliases and nearly fifty arrests in the United States alone, Natwarlal or to use his real name, Mithilesh Kumar Shrivastava, was his Indian counterpart.
		Victor Lustig was born in 1890 in Czechoslovakia.
		Lustig became a riverside gambler plying the various cruise boats that invariably consisted of the rich and famous.
	www.pitara.com /discover/5wh/online.asp?story=74 (541 words)

	THE MAN WHO SOLD THE EIFFLE TOWER...TWICE
		Victor Lustig referred to himself as "Count Lustig".
		Lustig contacted and informed him that he presented the most likely bid, then began bemoaning his position as a low paid bureaucrat with large expenses.
		Lustig, exchanged conspiratorial smiles and the cash for an official looking, ribbon wrapped, forged government document confirming the Tower's sale.
	www.canadafreepress.com /1999/9912a3.htm (518 words)

	The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower...Twice
		As “Count” Victor Lustig, he was able to give some sob story of how his life of nobility in Austria was destroyed when the country was overthrown as a result of the First World War.
		Lustig knew he was in the clear and headed back to Paris and pulled the same exact scam with five different scrap iron dealers.
		Lustig figured that he had exactly six hours to get out of town before his scam was unfolded, but when Loller failed to produce a bill on the first try, he kept trying for weeks on the assumption that he was doing wrong.
	home.nycap.rr.com /useless/lustig (2720 words)

	The Man who Sold the Eiffel Tower - A True Short Story
		Victor Lustig was born in 1890 in what is now the Czech Republic.
		In 1925 Lustig was back in Paris with his new friend Dapper Dan, relaxing at an outside cafe.
		They were asked to come meet with Lustig and his secretary at their room in the fashionable Hotel Crillon.
	www.3ammagazine.com /short_stories/non-fict/truetales/eiffeltower.html (678 words)

	What, Where, When, Who, Why and How [5WH] for kids
		Lustig had already chosen his victim and informed him that he was winner of the bid.
		Lustig approached the Frenchman and indirectly hinted that he wanted a bribe before the bid could be approved.
		Lustig was lucky enough to be one jump ahead of the French police.
	www.pitara.com /discover/5wh/online.asp?story=74&page=2 (289 words)

	Blogger: Email Post to a Friend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The tower was built for the Paris Exhibition of 1889, and by 1925 its upkeep was becoming a burden.
		So Victor Lustig posed as a government official and summoned six scrap dealers to a secret meeting, where he told them the city wanted to dismantle it.
		Lustig fled to Vienna with the cash, and the embarrassed scrap dealer never called the cops.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=3685737&postID=110973183587598344 (260 words)

	GRAPHIC COMM CENTRAL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Victor Lustig was born in Czechoslovakia in 1890 to a respectable family.
		Lustig complained of his poor salary as a French bureaucrat and the dealer correctly understood it was a request for a bribe.
		Lustig had a 12-hour head start and it took a while for the lady’s muscle men to find him.
	teched.vt.edu /GCC/HTML/PrintingsPast/CountLustig.html (824 words)

	Tillsonburg News, Tillsonburg, ON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Lustig invited the businessmen to avail themselves of one of the official cars outside the hotel, urging them to view the Eiffel Tower themselves and await their sealed bids.
		Lustig sensed Poisson’s apprehension and embarked on a double bluff.
		Lustig’s hoaxes grew increasingly outlandish until in 1935, after flooding the US with counterfeit money, he was arrested and sentenced to 15 years and sent to Alcatraz.
	www.tillsonburgnews.com /story.php?id=157773 (753 words)

	Seasons India :: Hoaxes & Frauds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Therese was jailed for five years and her two brothers, who had played the ficitious nephews of the non-existent Robert Crawford, were sentenced to two and three years each.
		Count' Victor Lustig, whose main claim to fame was that he sold the Eiffel Tower in 1925, was once imprisoned in Texas, USA.
		Lustig was released but the sheriff soon realized he had been duped, and once again Lustig was arrested.
	www.seasonsindia.com /timepass/frauds_sea.jsp (603 words)

	Victor Lustig - the man who (could have) sold the world - 15-10-2003 - Radio Prague
		He paid Lustig the requested sums and in return was given a worthless bill of sale to one of the most famous landmarks in the world.
		Happy chance that Victor Lustig had left Bohemia and never came back - Czechoslovak police would certainly have had their hands full of his deceitful charms.
		Lustig then got into counterfeiting himself and eventually was caught.
	www.radio.cz /en/article/46320 (1300 words)

	The Confidence Artists
		Lustig had been born in Bohemia and gone west, demonstrating his talents even in his early twenties.
		Lustig outlined the possibilities in his head, and realized they suggested a remarkable scheme.
		Lustig then sent six scrap metal dealers an invitation to attend a confidential meeting at the Hotel Creon to discuss a possible business deal.
	www.vectorsite.net /tzcon.html (6640 words)

	The Preacher's Pen :: JustChristians.com
		In that year a swindler, card shark, and all-around confidence man named Victor Lustig ran one of the most brazen and outrageous scams of all time.
		These scrap dealers, Lustig said, had been selected and brought to the meeting because of their stellar reputations, and would have the opportunity to secretly bid on the project.
		Lustig then fled Paris, only to learn that his victim was too embarrassed to tell anyone he had been fleeced.
	www.justchristians.com /abundantLife/041997/5.html (550 words)

	Weblog Item (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Lustig informed Poisson that he was the winner, but hinted that there was still a bit of a problem.
		He described the life of a public servant, one in which they were expected to dress and entertain on a lavish scale, yet were paid a small pittance.
		Poisson quickly realized that Lustig was asking for a bribe and reached in his pocket and peeled off a few large bills from his pocket to secure the deal.
	www.larkfarm.com /weblog_item.asp?LogID=2403 (189 words)

	MSN Encarta - History's Greatest Hoaxes (and How to Avoid Being Hornswoggled)
		The con man, "Count" Victor Lustig, picked the guy who struck him as being the most anxious to get ahead from the secret sale of the tower.
		Eventually, Lustig sold the tower to another sucker, and he later wrote a ten-rule manifesto for tricking people.
		Similarly, you'd think the Trojan warriors presented with the giant wooden horse would have wondered why their Greek enemies were offering such a fine gift after so many years of war.
	encarta.msn.com /column_historyshoaxes_marthahome/History's_Greatest_Hoaxes_(and_How_to_Avoid_Being_Hornswoggled).html (1301 words)

	Canada Free Press
		Two columns back I wrote about the "Counterfeit Count", Victor Lustig, the legendary con man who sold the Eiffel Tower twice.
		While passing through Chicago, which was run by murderous gangster Al Capone, Lustig approached Big Al and offered a deal whereby he could double his money in 60 days.
		After 60 days, Lustig went back to Capone, and apologized for losing his money in an investment gone bad.
	www.canadafreepress.com /1999/9912a2.htm (537 words)

	Read Darwin -F is for Fraud - MORAL COMPASS - Magazine - Darwin Online for Informed Executives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Master con man "Count" Victor Lustig managed to sell the Eiffel Tower, not once but twice.
		That's because the first victim was too embarrassed to turn Lustig over to authorities.
		Lustig's first escape from authorities is not uncommon.
	www.darwinmag.com /read/010104/fraud.html (1426 words)

	France Hotels, Paris Hotels and the France Travel Guide - France.com
		Father Theodor Wulf in 1910 took observations of radiation at the top and bottom of the Eiffel Tower, discovering more than was expected at the top, and thereby detecting what are today known as cosmic rays.
		In 1925, the con artist Victor Lustig twice "sold" the Eiffel Tower for scrap.
		In 1929, the Tower lost the title of the World's tallest structure when the Chrysler Building was completed in New York.
	www.france.com /culture/display_item.cfm?id=97 (429 words)

	MSN Money - The Speculator
		A big con is a theatrical production of operatic sweep, luxurious props and supporting actors in which the mark is taken not for the money he has on him (the short con) but for everything he has.
		One of the most famous big cons was pulled off in the 1920s by Victor Lustig.
		One of the reasons is detailed in a highly recommended book by Victor Santoro, "Frauds, Ripoffs and Con Games," which notes that a code of silence exists between lower-level executives and those higher up in big cons involving stocks.
	moneycentral.msn.com /content/P41488.asp (2191 words)

	Jim Steinmeyer - Newsletter - Public - Fall 2004
		Determining the most likely sucker among his eager prey, Lustig quietly promised him a contract in return for a fat bribe, pocketed the money, repaired to Vienna and waited for the scandal to erupt.
		Lustig returned to Paris, contacted a second dealer who had also heard his pitch, solicited another bribe and left town again.
		Lustig’s con was typical of many famous swindles, in which the victim ends up so humiliated – so complicit – that the crime is never reported.
	www.jimsteinmeyer.com /newsletter/archives/fall04.html (2361 words)

	Hockey, donuts, beer and socialism
		Victor Lustig is infamous as "the man who sold the Eiffel tower." I say "one of" because these days, even Lustig would be amazed by the conning talents of people like Stephen Harper and George W. Bush.
		Lustig had to leave town once he pulled off his con, chimpie got re-elected.
		The Victor Lustig of the Great White North, Stephen "sh!t leopard" Harper, is also quite the con artist.
	latour999.blogspot.com (13582 words)

	WeeklyDig : > One Born Every Minute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		80 years ago, one the greatest confidence men of all time, Victor Lustig, impersonated a government minister and sold the Eiffel Tower to a scrap metal dealer who, in addition to the asking price, even gave Lustig a bribe to beat out his competitors' bids.
		It was the most spectacular con of Lustig's illustrious career, the envy of flimmers everywhere and a sign of the times.
		Today, the most profitable type of con involves draining a random victim of every possibly penny before going to ground or even killing him and ditching the body in a drainage ditch near the jungle's edge.
	www.weeklydig.com /index.cfm/issueID/27c0b21b-8e09-4246-886b-649dd59fd1d5/fuseaction/Article.view/issueID/27c0b21b-8e09-4246-886b-649dd59fd1d5/articleID/138df768-464b-4067-875a-232f12e6158c/nodeID/4b1339d1-be3a-44a2-be8b-1484963a003a (2797 words)

	The Insomniac's Digest: A Chronicle of Failure
		She was prone to humorously devised plans with particularly malicious or fraudulent outcomes.
		Like a love child between Zach Morris and Victor Lustig.
		Illustrating a flair for ill-considered decisions, her solution to our dilemma was to have me write a letter stating that I was a current resident in the apartment.
	automouse.diaryland.com /030108_61.html (1042 words)

	1947 - Simple English Wikipedia
		March 11 - Victor Lustig, Austrian-born con artist (b.
		March 18 - William C. Durant, American automobile pioneer (b.
		March 20 - Victor Goldschmidt, Swiss geochemist (b.
	simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/1947 (403 words)

	Riverside church of Christ - Art's Sermons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		He told the dealers that the upkeep on the Eiffel Tower was so outrageous that the city couldn’t maintain it anymore.
		Lustig was so smooth, he actually convinced one of the dealers to buy the Eiffel Tower for scrap.
		Victor Lustig was a real con man. But he doesn’t hold a candle to a guy named Jacob.
	www.riverside-church.org /sermon_050130.htm (2862 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Martin Vacek (CZE) 6-3 6-1 Daniel Lustig (CZE) d.
		Daniel Lustig (CZE) 7-5 6-2 (8)Alessandro Da Col (ITA) d.
		Victor Crivoi/Catalin Gard (ROM) 6-2 6-1 (2)Daniel Lustig/Filip Polasek (CZE/SVK) d.
	www.stevegtennis.com /results/2005/f-czech4.txt (478 words)

	Identity Crime profile: Historical
		One dealer provided several hundred thousand francs payment in advance, along with the customary bribe.
		Lustig was caught when he sought extra sweeteners.
		The 'Eiffel Tower' exploit has attracted more attention than scams in the 1890s that saw Italian fraudsters extract several hundred thousand dollars from US millionaires by selling Trajan's Column, the Arch of Constantine and even the Coliseum.
	www.caslon.com.au /idtheftprofile1.htm (3087 words)

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		Victor Bruthans First Round (1)Radim Zitko (CZE) d.
		Jan Mertl/Jiri Vrbka (CZE) 4-6 6-1 6-3 Victor Bruthans/Tomas Janci (SVK) d.
		Victor Bruthans/Tomas Janci (SVK) w/o Daniel Lustig/Karel Triska (CZE) d.
	www.stevegtennis.com /results/2003/f-czech2.txt (500 words)

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