confidence game
noun[C]
USukus→confidence trick
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confidence game
A confidence trick orconfidencegameis an attempt to defraud a person or group by gaining their confidence.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This scheme, a form ofconfidencegame, consisted of bilking wealthy widows of their money by encouraging them to invest in horses.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.An individual that practiced such aconfidencegamewould be branded as a two-penny thief, and would soon be consigned to a house of correction.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He failed to convince the officials, who also suspected trickery or aconfidencegame.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Doll and company decide to set up aconfidencegame, what was then called coney-catching.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They were variants of the brokered loanconfidencegame.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The men who worked this form ofconfidencegameoften acted as gigolos to the widows they bilked.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A false document is usually created as an artistic exercise, but occasionally is promoted in conjunction with a criminal enterprise, such as fraud, forgery, or aconfidencegame.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Appealing to his greed and his masculinity, she convinces him to use his skills with crooked dice in aconfidencegameto help her separate convention-goers from their money.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.As long as capital flows freely, nations will be vulnerable to speculative attack and policy makers will be forced to play theconfidencegame.
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- anonymization
- anonymize
- anonymous
- anonymous donation
- anonymous donor
- anonymous letter
- anonymously
- anonymous reader
- anonymous reviewer
- anonymous source
- anonymous tip
- anonymous writer
- an open goal
- anopheles
- anorak
- anorexia nervosa
- anorexia-nervosa
- anorexic
- anorthite
- anosmia
- anosmic
- a notch on the/sb's bedpost
- a-notch-on-the-sb-s-bedpost
- a notch on the/someone's bedpost
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