Famous Landmarks for 'Sale': For You? Half Price.

Criminalia

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True Crime, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 16 May 2023

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The phrase, "There's a sucker born every minute," is attributed to P.T. Barnum, but it could be about this episode: We're talking about con artists who swindled people into buying some really famous landmarks. George C. Parker sold the Brooklyn Bridge. Among Victor Lustig's most audacious scams was when he sold the Eiffel Tower. And a man known as Natwarlal made a name for himself selling the Taj Mahal among other famous landmarks in India. Let's look at what happened when each of these guys dipped a toe into real estate.

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1:35.0	Welcome to Criminalia, a production of Shondaland Audio in partnership with iHeartRadio.
1:40.6	This expression is attributed to the famous American showman PT Barnum and we
1:53.1	really ought to adopt it as our tagline for our current season. There's the
1:57.5	sucker born every minute. In this episode we're talking about con artists who
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