BIGGEST SCAM EVER
Posted on 03/14/2021 1:31:06 PM PDT by Libloather
In 1849, police in New York City arrested a man named William Thompson. Charismatic and "a man of genteel appearance," according to a New York Herald report from the time, Thompson approached strangers, engaged them in conversation, and won their confidence, which he then used to convince them to part with their money or valuables. Prior to his arrest, authorities dubbed the prowling swindler the "Confidence Man," the first time the phrase was ever used to describe what would soon be shortened to "con man" or "con artist."
An old proverb cautions that "a fool and his money are soon parted," and con artists justify carrying out that parting with one of Murphy's Laws: "It is morally wrong to allow suckers to keep their money."
Some of history's most brazen, most brilliant, and most lucrative swindles have occurred in the modern era; sometimes the caper was carried out with computers, sometimes with blank checks, and even once with a three-wheeled car. Some scam artists have received unsurvivable prison sentences, others have been glorified on the big screen, and others have been sprung from prison in exchange for helping law enforcement prevent scams and even to run scams of their own.
Some frauds were carried out by charismatic and confidence-inducing individuals, while others were the work of massive corporations that were supposed to be operating under the watchful eye of government regulators. Either way, their fortunes were built on the dashed hopes, ruined dreams, and empty pockets of their victims.
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Swindlers sell the Brooklyn Bridge
Charles Ponzi earns infamy for his name
Lou Blonger scams the West
Baker estate con
McKesson and Robbins scandal
Quiz show scandals
Payola radio scandal
Catching Frank Abagnale Jr.
Equity Funding insurance scam
Crazy Eddie's lives up to its name
The Dale: A scam on 3 wheels
An American hustler creates Abscam
ZZZZ Best Cleaners Ponzi scheme
Praise the Lord Ministries
Ivan Boesky insider trading scandal
Charles Keating Savings and Loan scandal
Jordan Belfort becomes the Wolf of Wall Street
James Paul Lewis Jr. launches Financial Advisory Consultants
Sam Israel III
Charles Forbes
Centennial Technologies
Reed Slatkin
Enron
Tyco
Worldcom
HealthSouth
Fannie Mae
Real life 'War Dogs'
Bernie Madoff
Fyre Festival
COVID-19 / Event 201 / Vaccines: shaking out to be the biggest scam government takeover of the world in history
You can add the dangers of second hand smoke to that list.
Add in commercial free cable TV. That’s how they billed it many years ago. One big con job. Now they got people to pay for their commercials which have already been paid for.
COVID-19 testing, soon to be eclipsed by a fake alien contact hoax.
And the list left off Theranos - a multi-billion dollar scam on blood testing technology which never worked.
and the Biggest Scammer will be Nancy Pelosi , she is about to burn through many Trillions of dollars
Anyone have any thoughts to how the climate change hoax will be resolved?
Maybe it’s just me, looking from my current perspective, but I think it just falls by the wayside, and is erased.
If I put on a dress, I’m a female...
Evolution...
Thanks for sharing. Wicked fun read!
It will never be resolved. Climate is a constantly changing mechanism.
The goal posts will be moved again and again.
New goals, new money, and new targets.
The left can turn on a dime. Easily.
They abandoned GlowBull Cooling, thence to GlowBull Warming... thence to Climate Change.
Next up (speculating): Anthropogenic GlowBull Climate Sameness. Man’s evils are causing the weather to stay the same. Need more taxes to make it change again.
I think there are multiple derivative scams - covid, vaccines, cia et-al murdered JFK, the Fed, Great Reset.
I think the biggest scam government takeover of the world in history exists, encompasses many derivative scans, but doesn't really have a name.
Number one should be "the Democratic Party".
Ponzi had a good idea for real. In NYC he proposed and tried to sell a book where businesses would buy ads in a telephone directory. Other cities had it but NYC didn’t. He had no takers. Later it came to life as “The Yellow Pages.”
Let me add from the past 4 years Jeff Sessions and Bill Barr.
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