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A battered forward focus pulls up to the British Museum in London, outsteps a ponchy 45-year-old

man. His plain sport coat and dull brown shoes contrasts with the museum's grand neoclassical facade.

He's headed for an appointment with John Curtis, one of Britain's foremost experts on ancient

art.

It's 2005 and the art market is booming. This seemingly average middle class man

claims to have stumbled upon one of the greatest finds of the century.

In the dusty back office of the museum the visitor produces produces three stone objects that have been

sitting in his father's garage for decades. They appear to be Assyrian

Carvings. Depictions of a

look of concern, ripple of excitement runs through the museum curator.

Then, a look of concern breaks across his face.

He agrees to hold the carvings for further examination. The truth is that he suspects

the pieces are fake and that this nondescript nobody of a man may be one of the greatest

art forgers in history.

In fact, he was. Sean Greenhauge, the average guy with a beat-up car, was the brains behind one of the longest

running art forgery scams ever.

Police later discovered that Green Hulge, along with his 84-year-old father and 83-year-old mother,

had duped the art world for nearly 20 years.

They had passed off over $20 million worth of fake paintings, sculptures, and artifacts. And Greenhalls had made all of them in a shed behind their public housing project. He may have been the most successful art forger, but he's far

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