William Thompson

male
William Thompson was an American criminal whose deceptions caused the term "confidence man" to be coined. Operating in New York City in the late...
Victor Lustig

Victor Lustig

male, deceased (1947)
Victor Lustig (January 4, 1890 - March 11, 1947) was a con artist best known as "the man who sold the Eiffel Tower."
Soapy Smith

Soapy Smith

male, deceased (1898)
Jefferson Randolph ("Soapy") Smith II (1860-July 8, 1898) was an American con artist and gangster who had a major hand in the organized criminal...
Joseph Weil

Joseph Weil

male, deceased (1975)
Joseph "Yellow Kid" Weil (1877-1975) was one of the most famous American confidence men of his era. Weil's biographer, W.T. Brannon, believed Weil...

George C. Parker

male, deceased (1936)
George Parker (1870-1936) was one of the most audacious con men in American history. He made his living selling New York's public landmarks to...
Kenny Kimes

Kenny Kimes

male, 34 years old
Kenny Kimes (born March 31, 1975) is an American con artist serving a life sentence for murder. Born Kennedy Kimes, Jr., the son of an alcoholic...

Oscar Hartzell

male, deceased (1943)
Oscar Hartzell (1876-1943) was an American con man who convinced many people in North America to join him in a fraudulent lawsuit against the...
Sante Kimes

Sante Kimes

female, 75 years old
Sante Kimes (born July 24 1934) is an American woman infamous for the murder of Irene Silverman, an 82-year-old New York City socialite. She also...
Philip Arnold

Philip Arnold

male, deceased (1878)
Philip Arnold (1829 - 1878) was a confidence trickster from Elizabethtown, Kentucky, and the brains behind the legendary diamond hoax of 1872,...
Robert Hendy-Freegard

Robert Hendy-Freegard

male, 38 years old
Robert Hendy-Freegard (born Robert Freegard, March 1, 1971) is a British barman, car salesman, conman and impostor who masqueraded as an MI5 agent...