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Carlos Kaiser, football's greatest conman
- Cpoll 9y agoPrevious discussion on the man (different article): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12337073 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12337073
- badosu 9y agoFor those fascinated with these kinds of personalities, there's another brazilian who was famous for, aside doing all kinds of scams throughout his life: - Acting as son of Gol's owner, one of the major airlines in Brazil, convincing even a famous celebrity interviewer. This makes him able to have a luxury lifestyle by being offered all kinds of favours and party invitations by famous people around him. - Acting as one of PCC's (criminal faction) leaders and leading a rebellion where he was incarcerated. - Acting as guitarist of a famous brazilian band. There's a book and even a movie [0] about his story. [0]: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1997594/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1997594/ Edit: An interesting anecdote: When the writer interested in publishing the book about his story went to the prison and asked how he lied to people, he said "only after we sign the contract". Then after the writer came back days later he said he was not interested anymore as another publisher came by. The writer then told him he would take 50% of the earnings. After signing the contract she asked again, to which he said "well, you just had a practical lesson".
- dnh44 9y agoThat article is a very enjoyable read.