The Prince of Poyais

We hear all about how the “modern” world is full of corruption but cons have been going on as far back as human beings existed, we just might not have been able to hear about it as easily.

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This con started in the early nineteenth century and the only reason we know about it today is because of how absurd it is. Gregor MacGregor sold his investors a dream in which they could live in an island paradise overflowing with gold and exotic everything.