One of the youngest con artists on this list, Chicago student Vincent Richardson managed to fool people into thinking he was a cop at the tender age of 14. Richardson was a member of the "Explorer Program," a community project designed to bring local youth into closer contact with the police in a positive way, and he used the knowledge he gained there to walk into the Grand Crossing District station and sign out a police radio and ticket book. He then partnered up with another officer and spent the next five hours giving out traffic tickets. Richardson's con was discovered the same day, but the young man went on to impersonate a cop multiple other times over the next few years, most recently being arrested in 2015 as an adult.