Con artist examples
Con artist personality.
Famous scammer names
List of con artists
This is a list of notable individuals who exploited confidence tricks.
Born or active in the 17th century
Born or active in the 18th century
Born or active in the 19th century
- William Rockefeller Sr.
(–): an American businessman, lumberman, herbalist, salesman, and con-artist.[4] Two of his sons were Standard Oil co-founders John Davison Rockefeller Sr. and William Avery Rockefeller Jr.
- George Appo (–): American fraudster, operated in New York and was involved in green goods scams.
Wrote an autobiography and also had a biography written about him which discusses prison conditions and various other socio-economic conditions in the later 19th century.
- Lou Blonger (–): American pickpocket and fraudster, organized a massive ring of con men in Denver in the early s.[5]
- C.
L. Blood (–): American patent medicine huckster, fraudster, and blackmailer.[6]
- Amy Bock (–): Tasmanian-born New Zealand con artist who committed num