Philip Arnold
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Philip Arnold (c. 1829–1878) was a confidence trickster[citation needed] 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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