Charles Ponzi is probably one of the most well-known con artists America has ever encountered. Beginning his crimes with forging bad checks to smuggling Italian immigrants into the U.S. He was cunning and had a slick way with his speech to trick people into believing his scams. Unfortunately for him, his charm wasn’t enough to keep him out of jail. Charles Ponzi was born in Parma, Italy, in 1882. He came to America on the S.S. Vancouver in November of 1903, when he was 21 years old. It’s said that he gambled almost all of his money away on his trip to America. "I landed in this country with $2.50 in cash and $1 million in hopes, and those hopes never left me," is what he later told the New York Times. Ponzi had many opportunities to chase,
