Vote for Cafasso

Screenshot of the poll results from "Florida Conmen" - Abagnale and Cafasso running neck and neck

Cafasso is mentioned along with other infamous con artists at the "Florida Conmen" website.  The poll asks which is the top con artist of all time? Here are the choices:

• Therese Humbert, of France in the 1880s took millions on the back of an "Inheritance" kept locked in a sealed trunk. Victims parted with funds in the belief that they would have a share of the inheritance. Many varying excuses were found to keep the trunk un-opened.


• Frank Abagnale, masqueraded as a pilot, doctor and professor. Highly successful at check forging schemes. Subject of the movie Catch Me If You Can.


• Joseph A. Cafasso, military phony and grifter. Poses as not only serving in three military theatres of Vietnam, Granada, and Gulf 1, CIA, NSA, DIA, FBI Agent. Outed by Veriseal in 2002. Infiltrates think tanks, universities and ngos.


• Eduardo de Valfierno, an Argentine con man who masterminded the theft of the Mona Lisa. The deal made the equivalent of $67 million today for him.


• Victor Lustig, is held to have been one of the most talented confidence tricksters who ever lived. He is best known as "the man who sold the Eiffel Tower". He also scammed the famous gangster Al Capone.


• Tino De Angelis, who sold rights to $175 million in soybean oil stored in tanks, which was actually a thin layer of oil floating on water.

Cafasso has hit the big time as a member of this infamous list!

joe cafasso