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In the 1920s, a clever scammer tricked businessmen into believing he had the power to sell the Eiffel Tower! Discover how Victor Lustig pulled off one of the boldest frauds in history. This is the untold story of the Eiffel Tower scam.

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Transcript
00:00The day the Eiffel Tower was almost sold.
00:04The Eiffel Tower was almost stolen and sold for scrap.
00:09In 1925, a con artist named Victor Lustig pretended to be a government official.
00:17He convinced scrap metal dealers that the Eiffel Tower was too expensive to maintain and was secretly for sale.
00:23One buyer paid him a huge amount and Lustig disappeared before anyone knew it was a scam.
00:32The most brilliant scam in history was selling something that wasn't even up for sale.
00:39Subscribe for more incredible historical tales.

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