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In 1925, which notorious con artist successfully sold the Eiffel Tower for scrap metal to a gullible dealer?

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Correct answer: Victor Lustig

Victor Lustig read about the tower's high maintenance costs and forged government documents to convince scrap metal dealers he was selling it. He pulled off the scam not once, but twice! Lustig is widely remembered as one of the most clever and daring con artists in modern history. Photo: Page from a 1935 Philadelphia newspaper, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.

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