Prince of Thieves: Con Man Anthony Gignac

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🗓️ 20 August 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

There’s a Latin phrase, “Fortune favors the bold.” Con artists understand that better than anyone, I think. It always takes some degree of boldness to do what they do, from Bernie Madoff’s billion dollar Ponzi scheme to the three-card Monte guy on the street. But once in a while, we get ourselves a true master of the art—a con artist so audacious, so arrogant, so bold that they leave everyone they meet feeling like they just got swept up in a hurricane. We’re about to tell the story of one of the most outrageous con games ever played in this country—an unlikely con made even more bizarre by how completely people fell for it.

Sources:
Mark Seal, Vanity Fair: https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/10/how-the-fake-saudi-prince-anthony-gignac-was-exposed
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/10/he-actually-believes-he-is-khalid-the-odyssey-of-a-counterfeit-saudi-prince
Tom Huddleston Jr. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/06/how-fake-saudi-prince-anthony-gignac-conned-investors-out-of-millions.html
CNBC's "American Greed," Episode "The Fake Prince's Royal Scam"

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0:00.0	Hello campers, grab your marshmallows and gather around the true crime campfire.
0:04.9	Wear your camp counselors, I'm Katie, and I'm Whitney.
0:08.4	And we're here to tell you a true story that is way stranger than fiction, or roasting
0:12.5	murderers and marshmallows around the true crime campfire.
0:21.8	There's a Latin phrase, fortune favors the bold.
0:25.9	Con artists understand that better than anyone, I think.
0:29.2	It always takes some degree of boldness to do what they do, from Bernie Madoff's billion-dollar
0:34.4	Ponzi scheme to the three-card Monte guy on the street.
0:38.4	But once in a while, we get ourselves a true master of the art.
0:42.9	A con artist so audacious, so arrogant, so bold, that they leave everyone they meet, feeling
0:49.7	like they just got swept up in a hurricane.
0:53.1	We're about to tell the story of one of the most outrageous con games ever played in this
0:57.5	country.
0:58.8	An unlikely con made even more bizarre by how completely people fell for it.
1:04.8	This is Prince of Thieves, con man, Anthony Gignac.
1:22.9	So campers, for this one, we're going to start out at a mall in Troy, Michigan, December
1:27.6	7th, 2002.
1:29.8	At the Shishi department store Neiman Marcus, where even a pair of socks can set you back
1:34.4	more than I normally spend on a nice anniversary dinner, security cameras captured the image
1:39.4	of a quirky looking dude on a lavish spending spree.
1:42.7	The guy was dressed to the nines, lots of big jewelry, acrylic fingernails, fur, and he
1:48.1	was sparing no expense, buying himself one of everything that caught his eye.
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