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Confidence trick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A confidence trick or confidence game (also known as a bunko , con , flim flam , gaffle , grift , hustle , scam , scheme , or swindle ) is an attempt to defraud a person or group...
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List of confidence tricks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Confidence tricks and scams are difficult to classify, because they keep changing and often contain elements of more than one type. This list should not be considered complete, but covers the most wel...
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In the world of confidence tricks, there are short cons and long cons. Short cons are meant to take all the cash and valuables on your person. Long cons are more elaborate ruses designed to take more than what you have ... There is even a Yahoo! Group called romancescams dedicated to educating people on these types of scams...
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News Articles, Whitepapers, Downloads, Opinion, Videos and Resources relating to consumer confidence scams ... White Papers Phishing differs from traditional scams primarily in the scale of the fraud that can be committed. With phishing attacks, con artists must still gain the consumer's confidence to be successful.
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Confidence Games; Confidence games often victimize foreigners or people who cannot speak English. A confidence artist may even be a person from your own ethnic group or country, who specializes in building trust based on your common national heritage.
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The schemes, which have no connection whatsoever with the United Nations or the United Nations System of organizations, take many forms. New schemes are appearing with increasing frequency. A sampling of such employment scams include:
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