Most Fearless Scams Ever

The young man was lying on the floor of an expensive New York hotel. And sobbed plaintively. His arms and legs were tied. Two pretty ladies in police uniforms stared at this scene in silent horror. The young man was quite obviously too elegant and handsome for such a vulgar situation.

Around him lay the remains of a bachelor dinner, consisting of sandwiches and a bottle of inexpensive Cordon Negro champagne. Another young man soon appeared in the bathroom of the same hotel room. Also tied hand and foot.

Both were pulled out of the ropes, comforted slightly, and brought into the proper appearance of gentlemen. After that, the ladies in uniform, anticipating an exciting story and not taking their eyes off the charming young men, began to draw up a protocol.

Darius Guppy and Ben Marsh arrived in New York on the first of March 1990 on purely commercial matters. Their commerce was the most romantic. British youths traded first-class gems. Getting off the plane, both immediately transferred their safety to the hands of hired bodyguards. The pockets and valise of the British were literally packed with samples of their delicate business: twenty-three emeralds, twenty-five rubies, fourteen sapphires, necklaces, earrings, brooches ...

The total value of luggage was? 1.5 million.

The subsequent string of visits with the best American jewelers brought an extremely liquid success. Simply put, American professionals have just lifted the overseas youths to laugh. In two days, Marsh and Guppy went around New York, asking for truly astronomical sums for their stones. In addition, if one of the jewelers asked to leave a couple of samples for the commission, both the grief of the merchant was noticeably scared and completely refused to part with the precious samples.

One of the jewelers went to meet the timid young men and asked them to come the next day to personally show the stones to a potential buyer. The English did not appear. The jeweler did not consider this the most successful joke. In short, it was clear to every fool that at first glance young people were better at trading in jewelry than in ancient Japanese grammar. They were condescendingly advised to drop into America two years later. And to start gaining experience.

If someone had given himself the trouble to inquire, he would have known that, despite his young age, Marsh and Guppy had already owned a jewelery trading company in England for the third year. In the creation of which each of the friends invested? 88 thousand of parental money. So, most likely, some naivety, which was shown by British youths in the States, testified either to innate idiocy or to outstanding hidden talents.

On the third day of the New York ordeal, they both stopped at their hotel at about noon for a meal in a room where, after a couple of hours, the aforementioned sad scene with an unraveling of ropes was played.

They were just about to bite off their sandwiches for the first time, as they knocked on the door. On the threshold stood two with guns. They tied the British, shoved them into the bathroom, recommended not to lean out, and for clarity, they shot him once in the mattress. After a few minutes, the fuss in the room calmed down and Guppy ventured out of the bathroom. He found no one, crawled to the phone with difficulty, pushed the phone down and heroically pressed the porter's call number. Tip of the nose. Fortunately, this was just one figure.

Of course, the hotel staff did not hear anything suspicious and did not see anyone suspicious. Of course, jewelry worth? 1.5 million evaporated. Of course, the young men were crying.

In the mattress of one bed was actually sitting a twenty-second caliber bullet. And on the next street exactly the day before, unknown robbers killed an elderly rabbi ... Police detectives made verbal portraits of the raiders. And they left, congratulating the victims that they got off so easily. Indeed, they could easily get a bullet in the back of the head.