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Natwarlal is considered to be the greatest con man in Indian history. In India, con men who pull off particularly smart cons are often called Natwarlal, and many Indian fraudsters say they were inspired by his career. [7] His exploits have been compared to those of Frank Abagnale [8] and Victor Lustig.
- Gregor Macgregor
- Amy Bock
- William Thompson
- Frank Abagnale
- Elizabeth Holmes
- Conclusion
Gregor MacGregor was a Scottish soldier and adventurer who sold off a fictitious utopian South American island to investors in London. After marrying a wealthy woman, MacGregor tried to live off as an aristocrat in London but to no avail. After the death of his wife, he moved to Venezuela, where he married another well-off woman and assisted in the...
Amy Bock was a Tasmanian-born New Zealand trickster who committed petty fraud for most of her life. She used to make emotional appeals to her employers or other unsuspecting acquaintances to procure money, property, watches, etc., and then flee. Bock continued these scams for most of her life, but after her release from prison, she orchestrated one...
William Thompson was an American criminal whose exploits gave rise to the term "confidence man," now known as "con man." Thompson operated in upstate New York and approached wealthy upper-class people and gained their trust, or "confidence." Thompson would then make demands, asking for money or other valuable items like watches. He’d then bolt with...
Frank Abagnale is an American convicted felon who, in his teenage years and early 20s, orchestrated a countrywide cheque fraud scam, stealing millions of dollars. He also impersonated a doctor, a lawyer, and a pilot. Abagnale even logged 2 million miles of flying and reportedly cleared the bar exam. He committed fraud in 12 countries and was arrest...
Elizabeth Holmes was a Silicon Valley bigwig who gave Mark Zuckerberg a run for his money. In 2003, Holmes dropped out of Stanford University and founded Theranos, a health tech company that claimed to have revolutionised blood testing. Theranos’ growth skyrocketed, and by 2015, Holmes was declared the youngest and richest self-made female billiona...
Conning someone is not an easy task. It takes a master manipulator to make people give up their most prized possessions. But even though it’s a difficult task, con artists are no saints. They hurt people emotionally and financially, leaving them vulnerable in a cutthroat world. Most con artists, no matter how successful, get caught eventually and d...
Bihar-born Mithilesh Kumar Srivastava, infamously known as Natwarlal, sold the world wonder Taj Mahal to a group of clueless foreigners with his forgery skills. Reports also say that he...
Mar 10, 2016 · Meet India’s most popular conman, Natwarlal, who even inspired a movie with the same name, starring Amitabh Bachchan. He stands out for his amusing ways and notoriousness in the history of ...
- Bernie Madoff. For Americans, Bernie Madoff is probably one of the best-known con artists out there, which makes sense because he ran the single biggest ponzi scheme in the whole of history.
- Calisto Tanzi. Calisto Tanzi was an Italian businessman who had founded Parmalat, which was a huge food corporation with a multinational presence. However, it turned out that Tanzi had embezzled something along the lines of eight hundred million euros from his corporation, which resulted in the biggest bankruptcy in Europe.
- Ali Dia. Ali Dia was a professional footballer from Senagal who managed to convince Southhampton to hire him. This happened when Dia convinced one of his friends from university to pretend to be Ballon d'Or winner George Weah on the phone, with the result that said individual convinced the then manager of Southhampton that Dia was Weah's cousin as well as someone who played on the national level.
- Frank Abagnale. Frank Abagnale was the subject of the movie Catch Me If You Can, which is perhaps unsurprising, considering that his life sounds more like the subject of fiction than anything that can be found in real life.
Natwarlal, India’s most-celebrated con artist, was born Mithilesh Kumar Srivastava in Bihar about 1913. Stories recounting how his career began vary: one claims that his father abused him as a child, forcing him to flee, while another contends that, as a youth, he discovered he had a knack for forgery and vanished after withdrawing money ...
Natwarlal (born Mithilesh Kumar Srivastava; 1912 — 25 July 2009) was an Indian fraudster known for his high-profile crimes and prison escapes, including having supposedly repeatedly "sold" the Taj Mahal, the Red Fort, the Rashtrapati Bhavan, and the Parliament House of India.
