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confidence trick

noun

Informal shortened forms: con trick.�� con game.��a swindle involving money, goods, etc, in which the victim's trust is won by the swindler

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Investigators are trying to figure out if the fraudsters research their victims or whether they are using a confidence trick.

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“Before creating the show I’d read 20 books on confidence tricks,” Jordan wrote in an email.

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At the same time money is a confidence trick: an i.o.u. printed on cheap material that promises the holder nothing but more paper money.

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As a filial bonus, he demonstrates a confidence trick involving three coins.

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Dr Williams added: "So that's something I worry about a bit more, the idea that there are people who genuinely believe climate change is a huge confidence trick."

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