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by serallak 593 days ago
> He was so convincing that 250 poor Scots went on board the ship, the Edinburgh Castle, armed with his guidebook to Poyai. They then spent two years dying in the jungle. Forty of them come back and stand for his defense to say, ‘No, we just got lost because obviously we didn’t find the land in the guidebook.

People said he was the best conman.

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The lengths of self delusion people will resort to rather than accept the fact they've been conned.
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