Since the birth of human society, this special group of liars has parasitically inhabited the corners of this complex organism, and they have illegally seized the wealth of others by means of various deceptions.
In ancient times on the mainland, there were ten major jianghu deception techniques of "bees, horses, swallows, birds, porcelain, gold, comments, skins, faces, and hangings".
These jianghu deceptions seem to be similar, but in fact, each of them hides a mystery, and the deception known as the "bee" here has its own unique style of crime.
In short, the scammer will find a large group of people to cooperate with themselves, carry out a series of packaging, achieve the purpose of concealing the ears, and then deceive the upper class people with status and capital.
This kind of deception has evolved over hundreds of years, and the specific form of operation is constantly changing, but if you want to talk about the fraudster who uses it to the extreme, you have to mention a person on the other side of the ocean.
But for three decades, he pretended to be a Prince of the Middle East and repeatedly received reception from the elite, frantically defrauding hundreds of millions of dollars.
His real name was Anthony Gigyak, but in the eyes of many, his name was Prince Khalid bin Assad.
Tragic childhood
"Happy families are all alike, unhappy families have their own misfortunes." For Anthony, his childhood experience is the best real-life example of this statement.
In 1971, God gave birth to Anthony into a poor Colombian family, a child not a gift from God for his parents, but more like a burden to life.
While he was still in his infancy, his cruel parents gave up raising him and left Anthony in the dirty streets.
Fortunately, God did not give up on this poor child, and it was not long before a kind passerby heard Anthony's cry and sent him to the local orphanage.
Generally speaking, children abandoned in orphanages are mostly due to physical defects or mental stunted development, and children like Anthony are not common.
After all, any child is the hard work of the mother's October pregnancy, and few families can easily give up this blood kinship.
But Anthony is precisely the abandoned baby who must grow up alone in a special environment and face a complex society one step earlier.
From an early age, Anthony understood the "animal law" of social survival, because the orphanage here did not have very good living conditions, and only crying children had "milk" to eat.
From the first time he got more candy by lying, Anthony gradually felt the "sweetness" of deception.
In the orphanage, he can only win more attention from the caregivers and eat fresher food if he constantly lies and deceives people.
Therefore, at an early age, lying and deceiving people became a common occurrence for Anthony, after all, no caregiver would suspect a child's incomparably "sincere" eyes.
This continued until Anthony was 7 years old, a year in which the arrival of an American couple brought him the dawn of a new life.
Because Anthony was in good health and quick-witted, he quickly won the favor of the young couple, who, after a brief discussion, decided to adopt Anthony home.
For Anthony at that time, the concept of family seemed vague and unfamiliar, and he only understood one truth, following this new pair of parents to the United States, he could no longer have to suffer hunger.
So, in the summer of 1978, Anthony followed his adoptive parents on a train to Michigan.
The unfamiliar environment made young Anthony feel a little confused, but fortunately, his adoptive father and adoptive mother were very kind to him, not only taking good care of him in life, but also arranging for him to go to school.
That time may be a rare warm moment in Anthony's life, because just 7 years later, his hard-won family has once again come to the abyss of brokenness.
At the age of 14, when Anthony was 14 years old, the relationship between his adoptive father and adoptive mother deteriorated, and he finally chose to part ways and go through divorce procedures.
And Anthony, a child who is not related to them by blood, has also changed from the original darling to a burden that neither side wants to take over.
After experiencing countless "kick-ball" upbringing by his adoptive father and adoptive mother, Anthony was deeply hurt in his heart and finally chose to drop out of school and leave home to make a living for himself.
Forced by life, Anthony had to deceive every friend and teacher around him again as before, in exchange for a rare meal.
From this time on, Anthony also completely gave up the idea of struggling and became one of the local street children.
Wandering years
At the age of fourteen, a child's most rebellious period, without the company of parents, without the guidance of teachers, without the protection of the family, Anthony soon embarked on the road of breaking the law and committing crimes.
In order to get a full meal, Anthony must learn to please every stranger and avoid provoking gang members.
In the chaotic and complicated street life, he trained the skills of "seeing people and talking to people, seeing ghosts and talking about ghosts", and was soon accepted by the wandering community.
At the same time, Anthony has gradually changed from a liar to a full-time liar, relying on his ability to speak the truth and live well on the streets.
In the course of several years of tempering, he has tasted the warmth and coldness of human feelings in the world, and he has a deeper and more accurate understanding of human nature.
In the face of different groups of people, he can always play different roles to gain the trust of the other party. Once the plan succeeded, Anthony was able to escape quickly.
As the lowest group of people in society, Anthony has always had unlimited expectations and yearning for the upper class.
Compared with the "three melons and two dates" that they risk being arrested every day and cheating in exchange, it seems that the upper echelons can easily get everything they want.
But this kind of complaining and complaining did not change the status quo of Anthony's life, and under the great pressure of survival, he had no time to consider other ways out.
According to the normal logic of life development, Anthony seems to have been trapped in the quagmire of street wandering, but a small incident that happened at the age of 17 completely subverted Anthony's cognition.
On a day when he was hanging out as usual, Anthony and his companions stood on the side of the street bored chatting and smoking.
At this moment, at the end of the street came a large line, the crowd on the periphery wearing uniform suits and black sunglasses, and in the middle of the line stood a strangely dressed man.
The man wore a white gauze hat, the burqa of a Middle Eastern nobleman, and wore pearlescent gold and silver ornaments all over his body.
Anthony watched the Saudi royal family, sat in a luxury car surrounded by people, and drove away escorted by several security vehicles, and the mixed feelings of envy and jealousy instantly came to mind.
Also born as a human being, a Middle Eastern prince can live a life of extreme luxury, while he can only wear a faded denim jacket and live in a dirty and dark street corner.
This huge sense of gap made Anthony begin to doubt his own life, and he also had a huge desire for such a life in his heart.
Upon returning to his quarters, Anthony consulted a great deal of information about the Saudi nobility, learned about their manners and attire, and an evil thought began to germinate.
Under the vast genealogy of members of the Saudi royal family, the group of princes is not a rare thing, and a large number of heirs who do not have the right to inherit live a luxurious life around the world.
In addition, members of the royal family have many illegitimate children who are not in the lineage, and although these people cannot be recognized by the orthodox royal family, they are not lacking in the use of life.
At that time, network technology was not as popular as it is today, and people's understanding of the Saudi royal family was relatively vague, and this loophole undoubtedly allowed the astute Anthony to find an opportunity.
Instead of cheating on the street to ordinary people, it is better to pretend to be a Saudi prince and contact more high-end people, and money naturally does not need to worry.
It wasn't long before Anthony began his own plan, buying all the outfits of the Saudi prince, dressing up and taking to the streets again.
Master of Deception
This time, Anthony clearly felt the strange eyes of passers-by, different from the vigilance and disgust he had once had, this time more curiosity and envy.
In order to verify the effectiveness of his outfit, Anthony took a very confident step into a local five-star hotel.
In the past, these places were places he didn't dare to think about, but this time Anthony really replaced himself as a Saudi prince.
From the first moment he entered the hotel, he took up the posture of a prince, not only calling the staff to drink, but also choosing the most expensive one when ordering hotels and meals.
When Anthony was asked to pay on the stage, Anthony did not have the slightest nervousness, and generously said that he was a Saudi prince, and this time he came to the United States to negotiate with his father and partners.
Due to the tight travel time, he arrived at the hotel one step ahead of time, and when his father arrived, he settled the hotel fee together.
The hotel manager looked at this big customer with great style, and naturally did not dare to be sloppy, and immediately checked in for Anthony without verifying his identity.
In the days that followed, Anthony stayed at several luxury hotels in the city, using exactly the same rhetoric as the first time.
Therefore, the local upper class people all learned the news of the arrival of a Saudi nobleman, and under the spread effect of "three people into a tiger", no one doubted the authenticity of Antony's identity.
But Anthony knows very well that as long as it is a lie, there will be loopholes, and if he has not been able to pay the hotel fee, the "local tycoon" he has painstakingly created will inevitably collapse in an instant.
At this point, Anthony once again unleashed his innate "cheater talent" and set his sights on the flawed credit card system in the United States at the time.
Before the financial crisis in 2008, banks were very lenient in reviewing personal credit cards to stimulate people to continue to spend ahead of time.
In his capacity as a Saudi prince, Anthony managed to meet a number of senior members of the banking industry who also saw Anthony as a huge potential customer.
In the end, under The Mastery of Antony's deception, these elites in the financial world were also blindfolded, allowing him to successfully embezzle up to $200 million in bank funds.
After receiving this huge amount of money, Anthony repaid all his previous debts and immediately hired a large number of entourage to once again perfect his image as a prince.
This time, Anthony finally got the extravagant pomp he wanted, dozens of security guards dressed in black suits escorted, luxury cars parked downstairs in star hotels, like rich people.
Since then, Anthony's fame has spread throughout the upper class society in the United States in an instant, and the dignitaries have taken the initiative to come to make friends with Anthony, and they all want to "lean" on this big tree.
Looking at these upper-class people who once regarded him as nothing, but now come to him with the utmost flattery, Anthony's vanity has been greatly satisfied, and greed is constantly expanding.
After attending many business banquets, Anthony gradually became the protagonist of the crowd from a foreign guest, and his generous shot and personality became his social label.
During those years, Anthony became friends with many of the real rich, and through these relationships invested many businesses and made more money.
Therefore, Anthony not only bought a large number of luxury cars and mansions, but also completely began to indulge his desires and indulge in the life of a drunken fan all day long.
In order to make his identity not doubtful, Anthony also deliberately got to know many politicians, and through a variety of ways, he actually got some forged identity documents.
Under the endorsement of heavy credit, Anthony's fictitious identity as Prince Khalid bin Assad really became a person trusted by the rich.
It has to be said that Anthony has a very outstanding talent in deception, and also has the luck of heaven's favor, allowing him to maneuver around various banquets without being recognized.
But as the saying goes, if you want a person to be destroyed, you must first make a person crazy.
Anthony's life of poverty and luxury made him gradually forget his true identity, and his style became more and more arrogant, which became the last spear to expose his lies.
Truth
After entering the 21st century, Internet technology has developed rapidly, information communication is no longer as difficult as it once was, and what happens in the world will soon spread to every corner of the earth.
It is reasonable to say that under such a background, Anthony should learn to protect himself wisely and appear in front of the outside society as low as possible.
But the huge wealth brought to him by years of deception not only blinded the eyes of outsiders, but also washed away his own mind, and everything he even thought he had forged had become a fact.
In order to be able to meet the richer, Anthony continues to share his luxurious life on social networks and continues to create his own "prince" persona.
In addition to luxury cars and mansions, Anthony also likes to post his credit cards, especially the black gold card of the Centurion.
This credit card is famous because it is extremely strictly audited, only the real rich and political elites can have it, and the credit limit is unique and unlimited.
With his superb deception, Anthony obtained the authorization of the black gold card from the bank and also made the best authentication for his identity.
After seeing the photos and videos shared by Anthony, netizens also commented and forwarded them on social networks, bringing him a lot of traffic.
At this time, Anthony's greed began to work again, and although he already had a huge fortune, he still did not stop cheating.
In 2017, Anthony plans to use his status as a Saudi prince to partner with a real estate tycoon to defraud the rich man's assets.
Real estate tycoon Jeffrey Sophier was not interested in Anthony's visit at first, but after hearing his identity, he did not want to offend such a "nobleman".
After several contacts, Jeffrey Sauer decided to hold a formal banquet, inviting Anthony to attend.
Seeing that the target person had been "hooked", Anthony immediately prepared to leave for the banquet, but what he never expected was that this time it would completely puncture his thirty-year disguise.
On the day of the banquet, Jeffrey Sover asked Anthony to order food out of courtesy, and Anthony did not refuse his kindness.
It may be because of the years of successful camouflage that Anthony has long been defenseless, or it may be that no one has paid attention to such details before.
After looking at the menu, Anthony ordered a plate of bacon ham, and such a move immediately caught the attention of Jeffrey Sover and began to doubt the authenticity of Anthony's identity.
The reason is very simple, the Saudi Arabian royal family has always been a staunch believer in Islam, and in Islamic teachings, believers are absolutely not allowed to eat pork.
How could Anthony, as a Prince of Saudi Arabia, make such a low-level mistake, which is like Chinese can't use chopsticks, which makes people feel strange.
During the meal, the experienced Jeffrey Sauer did not show a suspicious look, but could avoid talking about cooperation, and Anthony did not notice anything out of the ordinary.
Immediately after the banquet, the real estate tycoon sent someone to thoroughly investigate Anthony's identity, using his connections in Saudi Arabia for many years to ask whether such a prince existed.
It didn't take long for the findings to be on Jeffrey Sover's desk, a figure like never in Saudi Arabia's royal family.
The furious tycoon immediately called the police, and Anthony was soon arrested and tried by the police.
At this point, this "master of cheaters" who pretended to be Saudi princes for thirty years and frantically cheated hundreds of millions of dollars was finally punished by the law.
After a court trial, Anthony was sentenced to 18 years in prison on multiple charges, and he had no remorse for such a result.
When the British "Daily Mail" published this matter, countless rich people who had previously met Anthony learned his true face.
From street orphans to princes in disguise, Anthony dramatically acquired an astonishing fortune and was dramatically exposed by the outside world.
In the final analysis, the reason why Anthony has been able to get away with it for so long is to take advantage of the greed and attachment to the powerful in human nature.
When all the dust has fallen, those who have really gone through vicissitudes to success are once again precious.