#gregormacgregor

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Modern scammers and Ponzi schemes fade in comparison to the grand deception orchestrated by Scottish general Gregor MacGregor. Over 200 years ago, this ambitious adventurer managed the impossible — he invented a utopian country called Poyais in Central America, declared himself its ruler (the Cazique), and began selling its "bountiful lands" to gullible European investors.