Victor Lustig (January 4, 1890 – March 11, 1947) was one of the most notorious international con artists of the early 20th century, born in Hostinné in the former Austro-Hungarian Empire (today the Czech Republic). 🌍 He became famous for a series of sophisticated scams, the most legendary being the double sale of the Eiffel Tower in 1925, when he posed as a French government official and convinced Parisian scrap metal dealers that the monument was scheduled for demolition. 🗼 His “repertoire” a