The Fake Saudi Prince - The Anthony Gignac story
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Who is Anthony Gignac and how did he start his con?
So this kid ends up conning millions of dollars out of people by pretending to be a Saudi royal prince. Now his name's Anthony and Anthony's around 18 years old and he's kind of a turd. He's always in trouble. And one day in 1988, he starts stealing credit cards. And of course he'll run up like thousands of dollars on them buying stuff. But specifically, he likes to rent limousines and he'll ride around in them. And when people are like, damn, who's this rich teenager? He'll tell them that he's a royal Saudi Arabian prince. And just to be clear, he's not a prince at all. He's not royal. He's not even Saudi Arabian. He's actually Colombian-born, but raised in the US. But anyway, he eventually leaves Michigan, where he lives, and he moves over to California. And there, he starts pulling this con all over again. And he'll steal credit cards and pretend he's a royal Saudi prince, and he pulls this scam for a few years.
However, you can only steal credit cards and commit fraud so many times before you finally get caught and they throw your ass in prison for a while, which is exactly what happens to him. But a few years later, he gets out and now it's 1993 and Anthony is living in Miami. And there he commits identity theft and he steals someone's identity and he moves into a luxury hotel and he keeps this lie going. He tells everyone he's an important Saudi prince and everyone believes him and they want to be his friend. And so he throws these big ass parties in his hotel room for all his new friends. But unfortunately, one night in his hotel room, boom, two of his guests rob him. And so he calls the police to report it. And then police show up and even to the police he lies and says, I'm a Saudi prince. And so I guess the police reach out to the Saudi embassy and the Saudi embassy's like, prince who? That guy's full of . And so eventually, bam, Anthony is arrested and he goes to jail.
And he's actually there for quite a while because it's not until about a year later that he gets out on bail. Then he goes right back to scamming. He goes to an American Express office and he tells them he's a Saudi prince and that not only was his credit card stolen, but that that card had a $200 million credit limit. And then he like screams at the agent to get his way. And by some miracle, I guess this works. And they give him a new American Express card with a $200 million spending limit. But unfortunately for him, it's not long before bam, he's caught again. And he actually gets caught a bunch of times. Here's his mugshot. And also here's another mugshot from a different time he got caught.
But anyway, Bro goes to prison a couple of times because he just won't stop telling people that he's a Saudi prince and conning them. And around 15 years go by. And at this point, you would think that Anthony would give up, but no. Not only has he not given up, he keeps trying to perfect this scheme and make himself more and more believable as this fake prince. And one day in 2015, he decides he wants to level up. And that is when he meets this guy, Carl. Carl's a British businessman, he's an asset manager, and he really likes Anthony. And so they come up with a plan to con people together. First, Anthony needs to get people to unquestionably believe that he's a Saudi prince. So he goes all in. He starts dressing up, wearing the conventional clothing.
He buys fake diplomatic license plates off eBay to put on his car. He even hires personal security to follow him around like he's so important. Then he starts involving his social media. Like he's living this life of luxury with nice cars and he's going out on yachts and even his dog wears a diamond body harness. And so he's posting about all this stuff on his Instagram account because, you know, he's trying to make all of this as believable as possible. And by the way, my favorite post of his is it's just a picture of two random Saudi guys that he like got off the internet. And the caption says, Family. Man, that is not his family. This mother is from Columbia.
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