counterfeiting

The earliest systems of "money" employed commodities (e.g. precious metals) as a medium of exchange. Such "commodity monies" had an intrinsic value. As it turns out, counterfeiting dates all the way back to the days of such commodity monies in the Near East. FULL STORY...

Count Victor Lustig may or may not have been the real birth name of a reknowned early 20th century con artist and fraudster who, among other things, scammed Al Capone, 'sold' the Eiffel Tower for scrap metal (twice!), conned a sheriff, and produced such a quantity and quality of counterfeit $100...