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Con Artist History

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>born and raised in hungary to a jewish family
>joins up with lutheran missionaries and goes to canada to proselytize fellow jews
>switches over to the presbytarians, gets tired of them and switches teams again to anglicans
>didn't pay him enough so he leaves
>goes to engalnd and gets naturalized under a completely made up name (ignaz trebitsch-lincoln)
>somehow meets the archbishop of canterbury and convinces him to appoint him as a curate by power of persuasion alone
>meets some rich millionaire and befriends him
>uses this friendship to win an election and become a british mp
>turns out british mp get shit pay so he goes to the germans and convinces them to hire him as a double agent
>the germans realize what a mistake they made and refuse to have anything to do with him
>publishes his lifestory but then the british arrest him (3 yrs) for fraud
>joins up with german radicals including hitler after his release from prison and gets involved in the kapp putsch
>gets involved with all the different factions of radicals and collects a shitload of dirt on them, then sells the info to different governments
>gets arrested by austria for treason, then acquitted but banished
>goes to china, becomes a buddhist monk, and in a short time rises in the monk hierarchy eventually getting his own monastery
>goes by the name chao kung now
>uses his position to bone nuns and extort money from students
>switches allegiance to the japs and produces anti-british propoganda for them, also contacts the nazis who are now in power and offers to raise an army of buddhist monks to fight the british
>when the 13th dalai lama dies he proclaims himself the new dalai lama
>dies at age 64 in shanghai, possibly poisoned for writing a letter of complaint to the nazis about the holocaust
any other ebin con artists from history?
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>>3193932
>yfw a hungarian jewish british mp almost became the 14th dalai lama at the head of an army of buddhist monks in the service of nazi germany
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>>3193984
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Who will play him in the inevitable biopic?
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>>3194135
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>>3194274
One of you go become a billionaire and cast Louis CK in this role.
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>>3194274
>>3194279
He's ethnically Hungarian IIRC so it'd work
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>>3193932
That was hilarious, thanks for the thread OP.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregor_MacGregor

>Be Scot in the New World
>Some Injun gives you a piece of useless land
>Go to England
>Tell everyone that """"King"""" George Frederick Augustus of the Mosquito Coast made me Cazique of the colony of Poyais
>Become an instant celebrity to the upper classes in England
>King George IV is fucking enthusiastic to start diplomatic relations with Poyais
>Go on about telling everyone about how much of a thriving colony Poyais is
>Say that Poyais already has a government, army, navy, you just need some more settlers and investment to help the colony be better
>Fleece hundreds of hopeful settles out of their entire life savings to get them passage to Poyais
>2 ships sail to Poyais
>They reach their destination and find nothing
>They stay put waiting for the Navy of Poyais to find them
>nearly all of them die from hunger and disease
>Get away scott free
>DO THE SAME THING AGAIN IN FRANCE
>Get arrested for fraud
>get aquitted
>Run to Venezuala
>Live the rest of my life as a General and get buried with full military honors
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>>3194756
>Get away scott free
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