Probably none more enduring than that of Charles Ponzi which bears his name as its moniker. Yet, there's also been another who was also just as "daring" when it came to finding ways as to extract monetary gains by ill-gotten means: Victor Lustig.

Lustig is best known as "The man who sold the Eiffel Tower." However, it was one of his other cons that came to mind as I was thinking about the current state of monetary policy we now find ourselves in.

Lustig's other con was a device he slated would print $100 bills. But it had a problem.

Unbeknown to his mark, this problem was also part of the deception. The problem was (as stated by Lustig) – it could only print 1 bill every 6 hours. The genius was; located within the machine it contained two genuine $100 bills. After that – blanks. You could be long gone, and quite far with that kind of head start back then. Yet, it's once the con, ruse, or scam is finally exposed one thing is certain: You don't want to still be around or found.