Soapy Smith facts
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Crime boss Soapy Smith, who in the 1800's started his empire by running a scam "golden ticket lottery" selling bars of soap.
Soapy Smith used a dishonest $100 in a bar of soap raffle to get rich
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Soapy Smith was was a con artist, saloon and gambling house proprietor, gangster, and crime boss of the 19th-century Old West. His most famous scam, the soap with a prize inside racket, presented him with the sobriquet of "Soapy", which remained with him until the day he died (in a shootout).
