Con artists, short for confidence artists, are skilled at deception. They lure their victims into a false sense of trust before stealing their money. It
One of the greatest and the most fascinating scams that occurred in the 1990s involved Emmanuel Nwude, a Nigerian scammer who managed to sell a non-existent airport for an astounding $242 million.
A Nigerian bank director managed to outsmart a major local bank out of a whopping £200 million - just by telling the bank he needed the millions to build an airport. Emmanuel Nwude is actually the former director of the Union Bank of Nigeria - but he channelled his expertise in a less than ethical |