A Smooth Con Question Preview (ID: 8916)

a) a criminal

b) an aristocrat

c) an academic

d) a humanitarian

a) "To Lustig, he was aman waiting to be hoodwinked"

b) "He claimed to Loller that he had developed a fantastic way to get rich"

c) "What the men didn't realize was that Lustig had switched envelopes, making off with all the cash"

d) "Not only did Lustig convince the detective to free him, he also managed to get $1,000"

a) research ideas for financial investments

b) learn about one of history's famous swindlers

c) teach people how to make copies of $1,000 bills

d) compare Austrian and American traditions

a) find something that you love to do, and just focus on doing it

b) find someone who has a lot of money, and think of a clever way of getting them to give it to you

c) save every penny you make, and only spend on the things you absolutely can't live without

d) look up the wealthiest person in the world to figure out how they made their money and do the same

a) a nobleman

b) to have value

c) to say numbers

d) a criminal charge

a) Lustig, a banker, sells his farm and becomes an Austrian count

b) Lustig, a con man who poses as a count, swindles money from a bank, and talks himself into freedom

c) Lustic, a con man, persuades bankers into faulty investments and shady deals, and talks his way out

d) Lustig, a con man who poses as an austrian count, swindles money from a bank and dies from pneumonia

a) Lustig claimed that he had developed a way to get rich.

b) Lustig met Herman Loller.

c) Lustig disappeared with Loller's $25,000 dollars.

d) Lustig developed a money-making machine.

a) continued scamming people out of their money

b) died of pneumonia anyway

c) married and had children

d) become an honest man

a) smart and honorable

b) clever and dishonest

c) funny and purposeful

d) successful and serious

a) He had to make more than $300

b) The scheme would not take advantage of others

c) It should always involve banks.

d) No one should be physically harmed