(1859–19??): American con artist, convicted of selling the Brooklyn Bridge to a tourist. Phillip Musica (1877–1938): Italian fraudster known for tax and securities frauds culminating in the McKesson & Robbins scandal (1938). George C. Parker (1860–1936): American con man who sold New York monuments to tourists, including most famously the Brooklyn Bridge, which he sold twice a week for years. The saying "I'll sell you the Brookly Bridge" originated from this con. Charles Ponzi (1882–1949): Italian swindler and con artist; "Ponzi scheme" is a type of fraud named after him. Soapy Smith (1860–1898): American con artist and gangster in Denver and Creede, Colorado, and Skagway, Alaska, in the 1880s and 1890s Adele Spitzeder (1832-1895): German actress that arguably was the first to perpetrate a Ponzi scheme between 1869 and 1872 when she defrauded thousands of people by promising them 10% return of interest monthly which she paid with the money of new investors. William Thompson (fl. 1840–1849): American criminal whose deceptions caused the term confidence man to be coined. Ferdinand Ward (1851–1925): American swindler whose victims included Thomas Nast and the former U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant. Joseph Weil (1875–1976): American con man. Fernando Wood (1812-1881): U.S. Congressman, Mayor of New York City, and a con artist who defrauded his brother-in-law and three others of $20,000 in a scheme involving the charter of a ship to sell goods during the California Gold Rush. Born or active in the 20th century Archibald Stansfeld Belaney a.k.a. Grey Owl (1888–1938), a British-born conservationist, fur trapper, and writer impersonated a Native American man. Alan Conway (1934–1998): American con man best known for impersonating film director Stanley Kubrick. Bernie Cornfeld (1927–1995): Ran the Investors Overseas Service, alleged to be a Ponzi scheme. Ferdinand Waldo Demara (1921–1982): Famed as "the Great Imposter". David Hampton (1964–2003): American actor and impostor who posed as Sidney Poitier's son "David" in 1983, which inspired a play and a film, Six Degrees of Separation. Susanna Mildred Hill: perpetrator of the “lonely hearts scam”. Harry Jelinek (1905–1986): Czech con artist alleged to have sold the Karlstejn Castle to American industrialists. Sante Kimes (1934–2014): Convicted of fraud, robbery, murder, and over 100 other crimes along with her son Kenneth Kimes, Jr. David Lamar (1877-1934) a.k.a. "The Wolf of Wall Street". Edgar Laplante (?–1944): Claimed to be "Chief White Elk." Stole from aristocratic European women and gave away large quantities of the money in