A : Victor Lused tig was one of the most imaginative criminals in history. He won and lost several fortunes, had fotry-five fales identities, and was arrested at least fifty times ! Born near Prague in 1890, Victor grew up in a middle-class family and learned to speak five languages fluently. However, he soon turned to a life of crime and in the 1920s he emigrated to the USA . B: In Missouri in 1922 he used his most famous alias- rich Austrian aristocrat 'Count' Victor Lustig . He paid a bank $22,000 for a very old famhouse that nobody wanted to buy. At the same time he asked the bank manager to lend him $10,000. The man agreed and they exchanged envelopes. However , the envelope that Victor handed over did not contain any money, and Victor got away with both his original $22,000 ant the bank's $10,000! F : so Lustig returned to Paris , wrote to another five companies... and sold the Eiffel Tower for a second time ! However , this time his victim went to the police and Lustig had to flee to the USA . E : The five company directors then made their offers to buy the Eiffel Tower. Lustig chose the highest offer , took the cash , and escaped to Austria to enjoy his money . Each day , Lustig checked the Paris newspapers for news of his amazing con. But there was nothing- the businessman , Monsieur Poisson , was too embarrassed to tell anyone how Lustig had cheated him . C : Theree years later he returned to Europe. He had already made over $40,000 in the USA . One afternoon in a Paris cafe , lustig saw a newspaper article which said that the Eiffel Towae was in poor condition . The repairs were going to be extremaly expensive and a few politicians had suggested demolishing it! This gave Lustia an ingenious idea- to sell the Effel Tower . Proszę ! Mam to na jutro ; ( Dziękuję z góry ;-*** !
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