confidence trick
coinfidence game

And without this faith, so much of the modern financial world is nothing but a confidence trick.

Perhaps it was a way of introducing himself into houses and working some confidence trick.

The fiddle game is a confidence trick, involving two men.

He supplemented his income with this and other confidence tricks.

Yet the lies, and confidence tricks, of these shabby people continue.

This confidence trick was already in use by the turn of the 15th century.

This is all part of the massive confidence trick the coalition are trying to pull on the general public.

Social engineering, like any form of confidence trick, depends on human weakness.

A better argument against the Government's pension cut proposals is that they are a confidence trick.

Sir,- What an incredible confidence trick the election polls have turned out to be.

You should remain vigilant and alert to potential confidence tricks.

A professional golfer tries to pull off a confidence trick against his own body.

Soon afterwards, Gary was back on drugs, living with a girl, and then came numerous confidence tricks.

At the centre of education systems there is a confidence trick to prevent most people from reaching high standards.

The operation was somewhat of a confidence trick, anyway, wasn't it?

Miracle flight is a confidence trick with the purpose to get into an airplane without waiting in a line.

We're only two confidence tricks away from grunting and barter.

The show demonstrates confidence tricks and other scams performed on members of the public.

Some readers even suspect that they are being treated to a confidence trick".

"For instance," he said, "it might have been a kind of confidence trick.

The swindle is classified as a confidence trick game, and illegal to play for money in most countries.

He was involved in a confidence trick involving the Lindbergh kidnapping and went to prison several times.

The embarrassing cheque is a confidence trick which may also be an urban legend.

Five confidence tricks Dress to impress yourself - try something new - relax - and repeat!

A "yokel-trap": how picturesque the German word for confidence trick.

Their lawyer calls her "a confidence trickster of great refinement."

It was plain to George now that the sun and the wind were a couple of confidence tricksters working together as a team.

The term "420" is used in India to refer to a confidence trickster.

I might be working with a gang of shoplifters, confidence tricksters.

Then his long criminal record as an embezzler and confidence trickster went public.

The figures also hide the fact that the confidence trickster would make the lion's share of the money.

If a person is using this model as a scam, the confidence trickster would make the lion's share of the money.

Lieder would later accuse him of being a confidence trickster.

This is a confidence trickster of rare genius and no small audacity.

It becomes comic as the confidence tricksters try to outdo each other.

To a confidence trickster of the highest order?

Good conmen always let the suckers talk themselves into doing what the confidence trickster wants them to do.

He eventually becomes a confidence trickster, or "420," who even cheats in card gambling.

Our country has been thrown to the wolves by a bunch of right wing con artists and confidence tricksters.

Its plot involves an American confidence trickster who pretends to be a spiritual healer.

It applies equally to bigamists, confidence tricksters, thieves, and murderers.

Ex-pirate, confidence trickster, lawyer, and occasional female impersonator when money gets short.

Maybe he was a confidence trickster.

Mundy spent much of his early life as a "confidence trickster" and petty criminal.

The John Silver I knew was an ex-pirate and a confidence trickster.

He can break up the rhythm with the deceptive powers of a confidence trickster and made something happen from seemingly stagnant positions.

Apparently his mum died when he was just a kid and his dad was a confidence trickster.

He earned his living as a confidence trickster, but was well known as a rapist and suspected of being a murderer.

That would suggest that Sonachand is a "double" confidence trickster.

Secure systems have to resist not only technical attacks, but also coercion, fraud, and deception by confidence tricksters.