Talk:Victor Lustig
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography. For more information, visit the project page. | ||
| Start | This article has been rated as Start-Class on the project's quality scale. [FAQ] | ||
 |
Victor Lustig is a former featured article candidate. Please view the links under Article milestones below to see why the nomination failed. For older candidates, please check the archive. | |||
|
||||
[edit] older entries
He did this in 1925 and was arrested in 1907? Continuity people. It's probably '27 but I could be wrong.
- No, both statements are correct. He pulled the same scam twice, but sadly I do not know enough about the man to make any alterations to this article to clean it up properly. Seth0708 08:56, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Inconsistency...
The client would inform the police, only to find that Lustig had closed up shop and moved on. Are you sure? I would really like to see a source for this... The reason is that many scams such as these often rely on the fact that ones discovered, the police cannot be informed. In this case, the individuals that purchased the machine would be convicted of counterfeiting money, to which they'd obviously confess when making their police report. To this day, this is a major point in many of such cons - the victim would either be too embarrassed or legally unable to go to the police (as is the case here) due to the illegality of their own actions.
P.S. I'll try to look into this myself, but if not I'll remove the sentence in a month or so...
Konstantin3307 23:05, 13 April 2007 (UTC)Konstantin3307
"The client would inform the police, only to find that Lustig had closed up shop and moved on." Removed the sentence for the aforementioned reasons. To summarize, victims of such scams are unable to turn to the police since they were attempting to engage in a criminal act; this is a common part of many scams. For example, if you buy a counterfeiting machine, you can't complain to the Better Business Bureau if it breaks down on the second day... ;)
Konstantin3307 01:07, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
