Everything about The Sir Francis Drake Association totally explained
The
Sir Francis Drake Association is a name commonly applied to a
1913 hoax, in which people with the
surname Drake were told to claim a fortune of $22 billion as long as they could trace
lineage to
Sir Francis Drake who had died in
1596.
Persons in both the
United States and the
United Kingdom were conned into paying up to $222,500 a week in "legal expenses" when it in actuality fell into the hands of an
Iowa farmer named
Oscar Merrill Hartzell, whose mother had been conned by a similar scam.
Hartzell swindled at least $2 million dollars, and an additional $350,000 by those who donated additional money by more than 20,000 people with Drake's surname. Hartzell was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment and was later transferred to a mental institution where he died in
1918.
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