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The internet is truly the wave of the future for all people, but then we have to include scammers and “matchstick men” into that equation. Scammers have used the same “patterns of hustle” since antiquity, but now they’ve taken a new form: a virtual one. There’s almost no greater way to bilk someone out of [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Friday, April 23, 2010 at 12:53 am
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Unlike most kinds of petty crime, a confidence game, or con, takes an enormous amount of skill and forethought to pull off. When done right, in many cases the grifters who perpetrate them have not actually done anything overtly illegal–they’ve simply used lies and manipulation to get their victim, or “mark,” to willingly hand over [...]
Posted by Evan Andrews on Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at 12:01 am
Filed under Bizarre, Games · Tagged Bernard Madoff, card game, con game, confidence game, cons, false good samaritan, gambling, good samaritan, grifter, grifters, Pig in a poke, ponzi scheme, Scam, Scammers, spanish prisoner, Thai Gem Scam, The Badger Game, The Embarrassing Check, The fiddle Game, The Sting, The Wire Game, three-card monte
