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confidence trick
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confidence trick
Noun
a swindle in which the swindler gains the victim's trust in order to cheat him or her
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Noun1.confidence trick - a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
sting operation - a complicated confidence game planned and executed with great care (especially an operation implemented by undercover agents to apprehend criminals)
swindle, cheat, rig - the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme; "that book is a fraud"
Translations
Spanish confidence trick ntimo
French confidence trick nescroquerie f
German confidence trick confidence nSchwindel m
Italian confidence trick ntruffa

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Confidence games and bad checks, except forgeries and counterfeiting, are included.
At a time when most of us were trying to relieve an already sick feeling from our guts, Enron's collapse and the continuing saga of confidence games only swirl the stomach bile more.
These criminals ply their trades, primarily prostitution and confidence games, on unsuspecting victims.
 
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