confidence trickster

His life avocation, however, was that of a confidence trickster.

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

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

If a person is using this model as a scam, the confidence trickster would take the majority of the money.

Sophisticated confidence tricksters have used a similar tactic for thousands of years.

They are just like a good confidence trickster, we go along with them for only so long and they actually believe in their power.

He is a confidence trickster, the offending against a 73-year-old man was particularly sophisticated.

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

The shop's owners face frequent accusations of being confidence tricksters.

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

The figures also hide the fact that 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.

At the time, he was known to be a small-time gambler and confidence trickster.

He is a confidence trickster preying on convenience stores and old ladies.

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

Surely confidence tricksters will use any scenario which works in order to obtain money by deception?

- is a drifting confidence trickster who makes his living defrauding people in the southern United States.

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

One duped investor says: "The guy is a pure confidence trickster.

He is something of a confidence trickster.

Dena Thompson (born 1960) is a former confidence trickster and bigamist.

In usage, a subtle difference is drawn between the charlatan and other kinds of confidence trickster.

Alfusaine Jabbi was clearly a confidence trickster who took advantage of vulnerable people.