Philip Arnold
Banker, Deceased Person
1829 – 1878
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Who was Philip Arnold?
Philip Arnold was a 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.
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