History's GREATEST CONMAN Who Sold a FAKE COUNTRY!

when the word calm man is mentioned we

may think of Charles Ponzi the original

creator of the pyramid were Ponzi scheme

were Bernie Madoff who made headlines

for orchestrating one of the largest

financial frauds in history or even more

recently the Nigerian prince who keeps

promising to send you free cash but

these guys would have been Padawans to a

man named Gregor McGregor who was the

Jedi Master of cause in the early 1800

because he basically convinced all of

England and Scotland that he was the

Prince of get this a made-up country

called Poya this all started back in

1811 when a young McGregor decided to

travel to South America and fight in the

Venezuelan war of independence sometimes

four and sometimes against Spain and

Portugal McGregor excelled in battle and

quickly rose through the ranks after a

decade of fighting McGregor landed in an

area on the yeast coast of Honduras

called Mosquito Coast named after the

mosquito India's who lived there but it

might as well be named after those

little bloodsucker spawns of Satan

because that area was nothing but a pest

ridden swamp after a lot of persuasion

and a lot of alcohol

McGregor managed to persuade the local

King Frederick Augustus to sign over

12,500 square miles of the lane to him

after that McGregor sailed to England

where people were just trying to get

over than they poliana quard ad had just

ravaged Europe McGregor then told the

people of England and Scotland that he

was dubbed the Prince of Hoya by King

Augustus and told everybody that that

piece of swamp of his was actually a

wondrous land where crops could harvest

multiple times a year where trees were

overflowing with fruits riverbanks were

lined with gold and basically unicorns

were pooping out rainbows on a daily

basis okay he didn't actually say that

last part but he might as well have

because he hacked up hopeful people of

England and Scotland thinking that this

was the promised land

he even showed everyone a handbook and

guided to the mosquito sure for the use

of perspective colonists created by a

person named - Captain Thomas

Strangeways who praised the beauty of

Poya because while Strangeways was

actually McGregor himself physically one

of the earlier examples of fake news

soon hundreds of people started to

invest in the dream lane

McGregor was rich a multi-millionaire in

today's standards not only did he sell

bonds to investors even printed up oil

money in exchange for actual cash now

taking people as money was one thing

that scumbag enough but McGregor was on

a whole different level of diabolical

because he actually charters ships to

transport people to this land of

supposed rainbow pooping unicorns so the

first of two ships departed for poia in

September of 1822

carrying about 250 passengers and when

they finally arrived two months later it

was of course nothing like McGregor

talked about instead of a bloomin town

with bings and democracy and thousands

of inhabitants the immigrants found just

two or three broken-down huts and they

can just book a return ticket in here

right back to Europe most people

operator their lives and spend

everything they have to come here so

they really tried to make it work

but they had no resources and the ground

couldn't produce anything except for

stank and over the next couple of years

most of the 250 residents died from

malaria or yellow fever in the remaining

50 residents finally gave up and

retreated back to Europe

unfortunately McGregor was never really

punished he left England and escaped to

France where he basically started a scam

all over again and it would have worked

you because the French people were

equally as gullible and many people

invested in Poya and got on a ship ready

to go to mosquito vale but the

government grew suspicious when they saw

that many of their citizens were trying

to travel to a country that no one has

ever heard of and that's where McGregor

scheme fell apart McGregor was arrested

in France and then jailed in England but

really only for a short time he did lose

all his money so he had to eventually

return to Venezuela where it get this he

was able to convince the authorities

there that he deserved a commission for

everything he did in the war and they

actually gave it to him McGregor died

six years later in 1845 at the age of 59

and today poyo remains undeveloped and

continued to be a blood sucking cesspool

not owned like McGregor himself

hopefully