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  April 22, 2026

  Send This to 10 Friends: The Long, Weird History of Chain Letters

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  December 30, 2024

  The Great Hotel Heist: How Mickey Barreto Stole the New Yorker Hotel

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  November 3, 2024

  Poyais: The Imaginary Country and Audacious Scam of Gregor MacGregor

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  August 31, 2024

  The Outrageous Con of Earth’s Representative to Venus

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  July 10, 2020

  The Scam to Search for a Country that Didn’t Exist — And What Was Discovered Instead

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  February 23, 2019

  Who Got Ripped Off When Manhattan Was Purchased for $24?

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  March 30, 2018

  How Gutenberg Invented the Printing Press Because of Bad Scheduling and a Con Scheme

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  March 5, 2018

  Dear Sir, I Have $1 Million For You….

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• November 25, 2014

  Cleaning Up in Real Estate — the Con Man’s Way

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  November 25, 2014

  Forget the Brooklyn Bridge… I Have a Whole Country to Sell You!

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  November 12, 2014

  The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower

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