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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