23 Legendary Con Artists Who Pulled Off the Impossible

In the 90s, a con man named Alan Conway in London impersonated Stanley Kubrick so much so that he came to believe he was Kubrick.

In 2015, two Spanish conmen sold a fake painting for €1.5 million, only to find out that all the money they received was also counterfeit.

In the late 1990s a convicted con artist and fugitive named David Kim Stanley—under the alias "Michael Fenne"—raised more than $28 million for a proposed 1,000-channel internet broadcasting company called Pixelon that never developed software to stream video.