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About Philip Arnold
Philip Arnold was an American confidence trickster from Elizabethtown, Kentucky, and the brains behind the legendary diamond hoax of 1872, which fooled people into investing in a phony diamond mining operation. He managed to walk away from the hoax with more than half a million dollars.
Everything about Philip Arnold →- Occupation
- banker
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- 1829
- Died
- 1878