Christopher Rocancourt - the
false Rockefeller
http://subtleny.150m.com/Chris/media.html
http://subtleny.150m.com/Chris/
http://www.mugshots.com/Criminal/Imposters/Christopher_Rocancourt.htm
The selling of the Eiffel
Tower - sold twice
http://www.vectorsite.net/tzcon.html#m2
Ferdinand Waldo Demara - (AKA:
The Great Imposter)
The first 10 chapters of the book , 1959, by
Robert Crichton
Originally Published in New York by Random House, Inc., and simultaneously in
Toronto, Canada, by Random House of Canada, limited, reprinted in 2001 by AnEx
Publications
http://www.anexx.com/AnEx/greatimpostor/index.htm
http://www.lawrencefreelibrary.org/english/demara.htm
http://www.kvacanada.com/stories_lpimposter.htm
Cardiff Giant
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/cardiff.html
http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/cardiff.htm
Hitler diaries
http://www.crimelibrary.com/criminal_mind/scams/hitler_diaries/
Bernard "Bernie" Cornfeld -
Investment Overseas Services (IOS)
Bernie Cornfeld (born August 17, 1927) was
the Founder of Investors Overseas Services mutual fund. He ran the fund out of
Geneva, Switzerland beyond regulator's reach, and raised over $2.5 billion
before it imploded in 1970. He spent 11 months in a Swiss jail before fraud
charges were dropped. Creditors seized his Beverly Hills estate. He was
plotting a comeback from his Swiss castle before he died in 1995, following a
stroke. Friends had to chip in to pay his medical bills.
After investors began to sell off during a market downturn, Cornfeld was
replaced with financier Robert Vesco, who was accused of looting the company of
$224 million and subsequently fled to the Caribbean. Vesco was later sentenced
to a 13-year prison term in Cuba on unrelated charges stemming from allegations
that he tried to produce and market a miracle cancer drug to overseas investors
without the communist government’s knowledge.
http://www.buyandhold.com/bh/en/education/history/2002/fund.html
http://www.parida.com/vesco.html
Ronald Biggs - The
Great Train Robbery, the notorious 1963 robbery of the Glasgow mail train.
http://www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters_outlaws/cops_others/biggs/index.html
[shame on the
British Government!]
van Meggeren
http://www.vectorsite.net/tzcon.html#m4
Operation Mincemeat - How a
Corpse Saved Thousands of Lives in World War II
http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/navalwarfare/a/mincemeat.htm
Dan Enright - Quiz Show
Scandal
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/quizshow/peopleevents/pande04.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/quizshow/filmmore/transcript/
Hauptmann [Captain] von Koepenick
http://www.koepenickia.de/english/0_home/home_en.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Voigt
German: http://www.hauptmann-von-koepenick.de/
Frank Abagnale - the great con
artist and imposter
http://www.crimelibrary.com/criminal_mind/scams/frank_abagnale/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Abagnale
The big diamond heist , 2003
Who did it? Was it Leonardo Notarbartolo ?
Police are still looking for the goods,
mostly diamonds I suppose, taken from high-security vaults at
Antwerp's Diamond Center and the burglars who actually broke into the building. The theft is widely considered to be the theft of the century in Antwerp.
There is not much to be found on the Internet at this point in time. We will
follow up on it.
Arrest Made In Antwerp Diamond Heist - Mar.2003 - Four people — a Dutch woman and
three Italian men – were arrested by Belgian police and being held in solitary
confinement in connection with the biggest diamond theft in Antwerp’s history. http://www.diamondregistry.com/News/2003/heist.htm
ABC: primetime thursday, Feb. 12, 2004:
Goods still missing... http://abcnews.go.com/sections/Primetime/World/Perfect_heist_040212-1.html
Enron
Aaron Tonken
soon:
Famous Escapes
Charles Glass , Iran
Papillon
Hdenry Brown , Slave
Mecklenburg Prison Escape
Cuba Armando Ramirez
Stalg Luft III (WWII)
Alcatraz
Dalai Lama, Tibet
John Dillinger
Dith Pran, Cambodia
Also of interest in this context:
"Learn
about computer virus myths, hoaxes, urban legends, hysteria,
and the implications if you believe in them. You can also search a list of
computer virus hoaxes & virus hysteria from A to Z." http://vmyths.com
www.museumofhoaxes.com
