This man sold the Eiffel Tower.
In the 1920s, a con artist named Victor Lustig made history.
He pretended to be a government official.
He invited scrap metal dealers to a private meeting.
There, he explained that the Eiffel Tower was too expensive to maintain
and would be dismantled in secret.
Everything looked official.
One man paid him a huge amount of money.
Lustig disappeared.
The victim was so embarrassed
that he never reported the crime.
Amazingly, Lustig later tried the same sc