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The Scammer Who Sold A Fake Country

2024-09-30 Science & Technology
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Go to https://brilliant.org/coldfusion for 30-day free trial + 20% off! Just when you think you know the depths of the human ingenuity to commit fraud, another guy comes along and takes the cake. But in the case of Gregor MacGregor, this will never happen as he will forever be the greatest scammer to ever live. He sold a fake country, but at a time where nobody could confidently and quickly verify his claims. Due to his social status, everyone believed him - some sold everything to live there only for disaster to await them. ColdFusion Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@ThroughTheWeb ColdFusion Music: https://www.youtube.com/@ColdFusionmusic http://burnwater.bandcamp.com Get my book: http://bit.ly/NewThinkingbook ColdFusion Socials: https://discord.gg/coldfusion https://facebook.com/ColdFusionTV https://twitter.com/ColdFusion_TV https://instagram.com/coldfusiontv Producer: Dagogo Altraide, Tawsif Akkas Writers: Dagogo Altraide Editors: Brayden Laffrey Animator: Mathijs Luijten

Top Comments (10)

@JakubVacek42 2024-09-30

The 19th century Fyre Festival

515 9 replies
@Sebbir 2024-09-30

It’s crazy to think he send hundreds of people to their slow death for money. What a monster

439 18 replies
@Ben-Ken 2024-09-30

The coat of arms featured 2 unicorns! 😂😂 He must have chuckled to himself when he came up with that irony.

374 5 replies
@Nick-ym4gh 2024-09-30

07:05 so glad we have the internet, thats why there are no more scams

239 15 replies
@mikkelnpetersen 2024-09-30

"Gregor MacGregor" is one of THE most scottish names EVER.

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@capnseriousnap 2024-09-30

Venezuelan here, pretty crazy he ended up landing in venezuela. What a horrible person to send people to their death. Entire families mind you.

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@yourssonny 2024-09-30

Bro is full of plan B 💀🗿😂

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@yallao 2024-09-30

"Somehow the judge ruled that he was innocent" no shit, he bribed the judge 😂😂

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@jeff__w 2024-10-01

It’s one thing to scam people out of thousands of pounds selling bonds for a wholly fictitious country, it’s another to _knowingly_ send entire families thousands of miles (with free passage for women and children!) to an undeveloped land to die a slow death from starvation and disease. It’s a real-life 19ᵗʰ horror story. (I’m surprised no one’s made it into a movie but it might just be too horrific.)

47 1 replies
@Siscon92 2024-09-30

An story as old as time. Greed is at its best when exploiting other people’s greed.

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