I find con artists fascinating, which sounds awful but.. how does stuff like this happen!! Catch Me If You Can is such a great movie... I read this article about fake bomb scanners in Businessweek today and I just can't believe this all actually happened!

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-07-11/in-iraq-the-bomb-detecting-device-that-didnt-work-except-to-make-money