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* [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Doctor Doom]] often conned Latverian nobles in his early years, with help from his GadgeteerGenius qualities. For example, he sold a device that he claimed was a violin that played amazing music regardless of the player's skill, but was actually a remote-controlled radio.
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* ''Film/HouseOfGames'': Two con artists show the protagonist a nickel-and-dime Pig-in-a-Poke scam that involves pretending to seal a $5 bill into an envelope in front of a cashier and then using the envelope to make change, having already slipped the bill out before sealing it.
* Creator/NeilGaiman's ''Literature/AmericanGods'':
** [[ConversationalTroping Conversed]] when Wednesday is talking about some of his favorite grifts, one of which involves a [[ViolinScam violin, two grifters, and an upper-class waiter]] as the mark.
** In another, a bishop in all his official finery enters a jewelry shop and purchases a magnificent brooch, paying for it in cash. A short while later, a cop enters the shop with the bishop in handcuffs, and explain to the jeweler that the bills are all fake: the counterfeiter was counting on no one daring to question a high official of the church or his money. He then explains that he needs the bills and the brooch as evidence and leaves a receipt. While the bills are fake, so is the cop, and the jeweler hands over the incriminating evidence of his own free will.
** [[ConversationalTroping Conversed]] when Wednesday is talking about some of his favorite grifts, one of which involves a [[ViolinScam violin, two grifters, and an upper-class waiter]] as the mark.
** In another, a bishop in all his official finery enters a jewelry shop and purchases a magnificent brooch, paying for it in cash. A short while later, a cop enters the shop with the bishop in handcuffs, and explain to the jeweler that the bills are all fake: the counterfeiter was counting on no one daring to question a high official of the church or his money. He then explains that he needs the bills and the brooch as evidence and leaves a receipt. While the bills are fake, so is the cop, and the jeweler hands over the incriminating evidence of his own free will.
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* A particularly notorious ''Series/JudgeJudy'' case involving an ebay scammer had the scammer advertise that she was selling two mobile phones, and what the marks actually received were two pictures of the phones, with the scammer being very careful to say on the advert that the buyers are bidding on "what [they] see in the photo" [[LoopholeAbuse allowing her to claim she hadn't actually deceived the marks]]. [[spoiler: Unfortunately for the scammer, between appearing on the show (where Judy can do pretty much whatever she wants and isn't as vulnerable to LoopholeAbuse as another court might be,) slamming down hard on Judy's known {{Berserk Button}}s (not having a job, making working people lose the money they've earned, and treating Judy herself as if she's an idiot,) and being less careful with the product description (she gave the weight of the product as 4.90 oz, and since the two photos the marks got sent obviously weighed far less than that, the LoopholeAbuse itself had a gaping loophole,) [[LaserGuidedKarma the scammer simply got one of the most vicious humiliations in the show's history in front of 10 million viewers while the marks got compensated the maximum $5000 Judy's allowed to rule]].]]
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* ''Series/{{Hustle}}'' is an entire series of this.
* Followed up by ''Series/TheRealHustle'', a "consumer" show detailing what to look out for and how to avoid falling for The Con.
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* ''Series/{{Hustle}}'' is an entire series where each episode has the crew target a mark for misdeeds and showcases a lot of this.
* Followed up bythe tropes such a series entails.
** Also had a follow up; ''Series/TheRealHustle'', a"consumer" consumer show detailing what to look out for and how to avoid falling for The Con.TheCon.
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* Creator/DavidMaurer's ''Literature/TheBigCon'' is a {{Nonfiction}} book about the criminals of the 1940s who used confidence tricks to gain the trust of their victims and take their money. It includes how scams are performed, the vocabulary used by the swindlers, and in-depth character analysis of several prominent hucksters.
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The Con plot reveals the anatomy of a confidence scheme, usually from the criminal perspective. Less action-oriented than TheCaper; while having some action, the main focus is on how TheMark becomes the victim of his own desires.
The tale, also known as a long con, is the plot of a confidence game. It defines the ways in which TheMark will [[AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted be duped]]. A con-man crew usually includes a team member called TheRoper, whose job is to ingratiate himself with the mark and tell them "the tale" of how the GetRichQuickScheme supposedly works, thus "roping him in". The terms Long Con and Short Con are related to the complexity of the tale. The slang term for these is a "gag."
May contain an ATeamMontage or AvengersAssemble sequence.
The book ''The Big Con'', by David Maurer, is recommended to the casual reader. An anthropological study of the ConMan circa 1935-1940, it served as partial inspiration for the original ''Series/MissionImpossible'' TV series.
See also ImpossibleMission, TheInfiltration. While usually a standard of TheCaper, occasionally there will be a CaperCrew running or utilizing The Con.
Remember, if it seems TooGoodToBeTrue, it probably is.
Not to be confused with the colloquial term for a FanConvention. Or with the term for people in jail; though an unsuccessful perpetrator of TheCon might ''end up'' there.
The tale, also known as a long con, is the plot of a confidence game. It defines the ways in which TheMark will [[AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted be duped]]. A con-man crew usually includes a team member called TheRoper, whose job is to ingratiate himself with the mark and tell them "the tale" of how the GetRichQuickScheme supposedly works, thus "roping him in". The terms Long Con and Short Con are related to the complexity of the tale. The slang term for these is a "gag."
May contain an ATeamMontage or AvengersAssemble sequence.
The book ''The Big Con'', by David Maurer, is recommended to the casual reader. An anthropological study of the ConMan circa 1935-1940, it served as partial inspiration for the original ''Series/MissionImpossible'' TV series.
See also ImpossibleMission, TheInfiltration. While usually a standard of TheCaper, occasionally there will be a CaperCrew running or utilizing The Con.
Remember, if it seems TooGoodToBeTrue, it probably is.
Not to be confused with the colloquial term for a FanConvention. Or with the term for people in jail; though an unsuccessful perpetrator of TheCon might ''end up'' there.
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Yes, this is basically the act of [[StickyFingers pickpocketing]], except that instead of having dexterous hands, the confidence man has a [[TheSocialExpert silver tongue]]. Sweet-talking the victim might take only a few moments (where you're probably only getting the money they had in their wallet and maybe not even all of that), or they might take place over the course of several days and weeks (in which case, you'll probably need some help to keep the scam going, but you're looking at a much bigger payday).
A short con ("Hey, can I hold your wallet for a moment?") by definition doesn't take very long and establishes the conman's credentials. A longer con can form the basis of an entire storyarc, [[TheCaper pulling an elaborate theft]] by multiple members of the crew gaining the trust of their victims and betraying that trust in a critical moment. A fictional version of the long con may involve a payday of millions of dollars for everyone in on the scam.
Other roles in a confidence
* Someone to filter through the options and find/prime the victim. This is typically an [[HoneyTrap attractive woman]], but a [[ArtfulDodger small child]] is also good. This person typically meets a lot of potential marks and is looking for which one will be easily fooled by the story being told by the group. A common name for this role is the roper.
* Someone to provide urgency for the scam. This can be in the form of competition ("There's only one left, let me cut in ahead of you.") or in the form of cooperation ("Check out how much I got from their last investment strategy!"). A common name for this role is the
* A different form of urgency is
The tale, also known as a long con, is
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See also ImpossibleMission, TheInfiltration. While usually a standard of TheCaper, occasionally there will be a CaperCrew running or utilizing The Con.
Remember, if it seems TooGoodToBeTrue, it probably is.
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* ''Series/HawaiiFive0'' features one episode where a gang of criminals pulls a ''Series/MissionImpossible''-style con on a businessman by imitating members of the main cast and having the required perfect replica of the real office in an [[BigStore abandoned building]].
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* ''Series/HawaiiFive0'' features one episode where a gang of criminals pulls a ''Series/MissionImpossible''-style con on a businessman by imitating members of the main cast and having the required perfect replica of the real office in an [[BigStore abandoned building]].building.
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* In ''[[Literature/GentlemanBastard The Lies Of Locke Lamora]]'', the Gentleman Bastards team of con artists pull a scam on a pair of nobles, claiming to need funds to import soon-to-be-priceless brandy into the city in return for a healthy cut of the profits. However, the Bastards pull a KansasCityShuffle on their marks soon after putting the scheme in place.
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* ''Series/{{Community}}'' has Abed's internet friend Toby, a banker in Nigeria, experiencing financial difficulties and requiring Abed to send him $700 to enable him to fly out of the country to meet him. After Abed explains this, Britta is just about to explain that Abed has fallen for one of these... when [[SubvertedTrope Toby shows up, thanks Abed, pays him back the $700 and complains how Abed was the only one to actually help him out]].
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* This in the ''{{Literature/Discworld}}'' novel ''Literature/GoingPostal'', ConMan Moist von Lipwig views a real ring and a fake ring as part of his basic tools for emergencies. When the man wants to have it valued and they go to an actual jeweler he shows the man a real diamond ring. Reassured that it's real the mark then buys the ring, and when he takes it back to the jeweler to sell he's informed that it's brass and glass. His backup plan, if he can't source the real ring, is to walk through the motions of this con... and then make the trade almost immediately thereafter, without any time for a switch, with the aim of proving to the mark that this relatively well-known con isn't going on. The trick here is that Moist bribed the jeweler ahead of time to testify that his glass ring was real.
* A complicated con is used in the original version of ''{{Literature/Aladdin}}'': The evil sorcerer('s brother) determines that Aladdin is now rich and powerful thanks to the power of a worn-out old lamp he keeps in his palace. So he waits for Aladdin to be out of town, buys a bunch of new lamps, and goes around town asking who wants to exchange their old lamps for new ones. He ends up drawing such a crowd that the princess (Aladdin's wife) hears what's going on, and then decides to take him up on his offer. The instant the sorcerer has the lamp genie under his command, he teleports himself, the palace, and the princess away.
* A complicated con is used in the original version of ''{{Literature/Aladdin}}'': The evil sorcerer('s brother) determines that Aladdin is now rich and powerful thanks to the power of a worn-out old lamp he keeps in his palace. So he waits for Aladdin to be out of town, buys a bunch of new lamps, and goes around town asking who wants to exchange their old lamps for new ones. He ends up drawing such a crowd that the princess (Aladdin's wife) hears what's going on, and then decides to take him up on his offer. The instant the sorcerer has the lamp genie under his command, he teleports himself, the palace, and the princess away.
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* The Myth/ClassicalMythology story of King Minos: When asked to save Crete from a disaster, Poseidon agreed and sent a pure white bull to Minos and asked him to publicly sacrifice it after the disaster as a sign of respect. Instead, Minos swapped it out with a decently good but not divinely-granted bull, and as revenge Poseidon made his love Pasiphae fall in love with the white bull, thus begetting the Minotaur.
* God in [[Literature/BookOfMalachi Malachi 1:14]] from ''Literature/TheBible'' says "cursed be the deceiver who has in his flock a male, and vows, and yet sacrifices to the Lord what is blemished." Basically saying that God does not like people conning Him out of good sacrificial animals by offering a bad one in its place.
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* The Myth/ClassicalMythology story of King Minos: When asked to save Crete from a disaster, Poseidon agreed and sent a pure white bull to Minos and asked him to publicly sacrifice it after the disaster as a sign of respect. Instead, Minos swapped it out with a decently good but not divinely-granted bull, and as revenge Poseidon made his love Pasiphae fall in love with the white bull, thus begetting the Minotaur.
* God in [[Literature/BookOfMalachi Malachi 1:14]] from ''Literature/TheBible'' says "cursed be the deceiver who has in his flock a male, and vows, and yet sacrifices to the Lord what is blemished." Basically saying that God does not like people conning Him out of good sacrificial animals by offering a bad one in its place.
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* In ''Film/HouseOfGames'', the female lead gets trapped and loses $80,000 in an elaborate scam involving a fake mark.
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* In ''Film/HouseOfGames'', ''Film/HouseOfGames'': The protagonist participate in a large-scale scam. The intention is for the female lead gets trapped cons and loses $80,000 in a mark to "discover" a [[BriefcaseFullOfMoney briefcase full of drug money]]. They can't simply divide the cash and leave without properly laundering the money. The banker mark can launder the money, but the cons say they don't trust him to send them their share when he's done, so they persuade him to buy out their share with his own money and keep the whole briefcase. Once he's given them his money, they'll swap the briefcase with an elaborate scam involving a fake mark.empty one just before leaving. The mark can't complain to the cops about being ripped off while trying to launder money.
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* In ''Film/{{Go}}'', one of the characters sells harmless household products as drugs to inexperienced teens. This includes aspirin, chewable vitamins and anything else vaguely pharmaceutical they could obtain at the supermarket.
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* Played with in ''Series/{{Spaced}}'', with the oregano-for-weed beat-bag variant. They weren't out to con anyone originally -- ''everyone'' involved thought it was weed. Daisy had just got confused earlier and put their weed in a stew, while Tim was unknowingly carrying a bag of oregano when they were mugged. When [[HiddenDepths a catering student among the muggers]] interrupts their FakeHigh to point out what they're really smoking, they confront Tim and Daisy again, convinced that they'd been the victim of this con - despite the fact that, as mentioned, they mugged the pair for it and didn't pay a penny.
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* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': ComicBook/{{Huntress}} uncovers a rather sinister nested con where a group of conmen convince thieves and other criminals they'll help them fake their deaths and get away to start a new life, and while they do help some of them fake their deaths once they have all the information they need to take a larger percentage of their target's loot they kill them and cremate them, which explains why the fake deaths are so successful at keeping their supposed temporary allies hidden from authorities.
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* ''Nine Queens'' and its 2004 American remake, the generically named ''Film/{{Criminal}}''.
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* ''Film/{{Circus}}'', although it takes a long time till it is apparent exactly who is conning who.
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* ''Film/{{Circus}}'', although ''Film/{{Circus}}'' contains multiple nested cons, to the point where it takes a long time till it is apparent exactly becomes hard to work out just who is conning who.who. As a tip, whoever thinks they are winning at a particular point, probably isn't.
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* In ''Film/HouseOfGames'', the female lead gets trapped and loses $80,000 in an elaborate scam involving a fake mark.
* In ''Film/BlondeCrazy'', Bert thinks he's going to get big bucks with his counterfeit bill swindle with Dapper Dan, but what Dan is really doing is stealing the actual cash.
* In ''Film/BlondeCrazy'', Bert thinks he's going to get big bucks with his counterfeit bill swindle with Dapper Dan, but what Dan is really doing is stealing the actual cash.
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* In ''Series/{{Lost}}'': Sawyer is caught out by this woman when trying to run a scam (something similar to a Thai Gem Scam), eventually he befriends her and takes her on several short cons, using her as a shill. Then he comes up with a longer con which would go for a bigger target but would require a little show money. She then reveals that she has some money that she got from a divorce which they can use. Psych! Turns out that this was just a really long con where Sawyer had been told by her vengeful ex-husband about the money and was there to get it from her.
* In ''Series/TheRockfordFiles'' episode "There's One in Every Port", Rockford is in the unenviable position of having to con a fellow conman, who is in turn running a con of his own against a third party. As a result, he has to come up with something the other guy hasn't seen before, which ends up being an odd three-layer con. He fakes like he's trying to steal his rival's mark, while allowing said pre-made fake mark to learn what he thinks is good blackmail material about the oil baron who Rockford is impersonating. Then he has some fake IRS agents rope the rival conman into a fake tax sting against his own mark, and allow him to hear said blackmail material when the mark attempts to use it against Rockford as the oil baron. Now the rival takes this information and attempts to use it against the real oil baron, and ends up buying a huge amount of stock at a steep discount (that way he gets money, but cannot release the blackmail material easily because he has a financial stake himself). However, the stock certificate ends up being a fake. The second oil baron was also a fake, and yet another fake mark.
* In ''Series/TheRockfordFiles'' episode "There's One in Every Port", Rockford is in the unenviable position of having to con a fellow conman, who is in turn running a con of his own against a third party. As a result, he has to come up with something the other guy hasn't seen before, which ends up being an odd three-layer con. He fakes like he's trying to steal his rival's mark, while allowing said pre-made fake mark to learn what he thinks is good blackmail material about the oil baron who Rockford is impersonating. Then he has some fake IRS agents rope the rival conman into a fake tax sting against his own mark, and allow him to hear said blackmail material when the mark attempts to use it against Rockford as the oil baron. Now the rival takes this information and attempts to use it against the real oil baron, and ends up buying a huge amount of stock at a steep discount (that way he gets money, but cannot release the blackmail material easily because he has a financial stake himself). However, the stock certificate ends up being a fake. The second oil baron was also a fake, and yet another fake mark.
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* Jean's part in ''Film/TheLadyEve'' is to lure rich men into playing high stakes card games with her CardSharp father.
* ''Film/LadyKiller'': Myra's role in the gang is to lure susceptible dudes into her apartment and into Duke's rigged poker games.
* In ''Film/{{Vabank}}'' Kramer [[MeetCute accidentally meets]] a young, pretty socialite who invites him over. So he spends the evening wooing Natalie, just as Kwinto and company rob his bank. [[spoiler: This serves three functions: one, Kramer is kept busy and out of the way, two - this is the brilliant part - a completely innocuous act of helping Natalie unclasp her necklace [[FrameUp gets Kramer's fingerprints on the crucial part of evidence that the boys plant at the scene]], and three, when he needs an alibi and goes to Natalie for it, she's not there, there's no sign of her and he's made to look foolish.]]
* ''Film/LadyKiller'': Myra's role in the gang is to lure susceptible dudes into her apartment and into Duke's rigged poker games.
* In ''Film/{{Vabank}}'' Kramer [[MeetCute accidentally meets]] a young, pretty socialite who invites him over. So he spends the evening wooing Natalie, just as Kwinto and company rob his bank. [[spoiler: This serves three functions: one, Kramer is kept busy and out of the way, two - this is the brilliant part - a completely innocuous act of helping Natalie unclasp her necklace [[FrameUp gets Kramer's fingerprints on the crucial part of evidence that the boys plant at the scene]], and three, when he needs an alibi and goes to Natalie for it, she's not there, there's no sign of her and he's made to look foolish.]]
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* ''Series/{{Leverage}}'', the TransAtlanticEquivalent of ''Series/{{Hustle}}'' follows the same general idea, although they do TheCaper fairly often. They are also generally [[JustLikeRobinHood using their powers for good]] and usually don't keep the money they steal. While, technically, only one members of the team is a professional conwoman (while being a terrible actress on stage), the rest quickly learn the art, even the one, who, according to WordOfGod, has Asperger's. They also occasionally go up against other conmen.
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* In ''Series/{{Leverage}}'', many of their cons involve setting up the TransAtlanticEquivalent mark with a roper. Sophie the grifter is the most common choice. An excellent example of ''Series/{{Hustle}}'' follows this is from "The Snow Job" where she pretends to be a olympic champion to attract their mark into spending money on a fake upgrade to the snow resort to finance his bad idea for an X-games. Later in the same general idea, although they do TheCaper fairly often. They are also generally [[JustLikeRobinHood using their powers for good]] and usually don't keep episode, she ropes the money they steal. While, technically, only one members of the team is a professional conwoman (while being a terrible actress on stage), the rest quickly learn the art, marks younger brother into an even bigger scam involving buying life insurance settlements off of people with terminal illnesses. Sometimes the one, who, according to WordOfGod, has Asperger's. They also occasionally go up against other conmen.others - most commonly Hardison - serve as the Roper.
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The tale, also known as a long con, is the plot of a confidence game. It defines the ways in which TheMark will [[AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted be duped]]. A con-man crew usually includes a team member called TheRoper, whose job is to ingratiate himself with the mark and tell them "the tale" of how the GetRichQuickScheme supposedly works, thus "roping him in". The terms Long Con and Short Con are related to the complexity of the tale. The slang term for these is a "gag."
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** AllNaturalSnakeOil can fall here or below depending on the elaborateness and effort of the scam intended to sell it - an example of it falling here would be a late night infomercial selling a "male enhancement" pill that disappears in a few weeks or a month, with no ongoing efforts to proclaim its usefulness or validity.
** BeatBag
** HustlingTheMark
** PigInAPoke
** QuickChange
** ScammingTheBereaved
** FourOneNineScam
** AllNaturalSnakeOil can fit here or above - depending on how much effort the scam intended to sell it involves and the elaborateness of it. For example, the RealLife [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Trudeau Kevin Trudeau]] scam empire would fall in here.
** DelayedWire
** FakeCharity
** GoodForBad
** InsuranceFraud
** KansasCityShuffle
** LandmarkSale
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** RealEstateScam
** ScamReligion
** SpanishPrisoner
** StagedPedestrianAccident
** ViolinScam
** WhiteCollarCrime
** AllNaturalSnakeOil can fall here or below depending on the elaborateness and effort of the scam intended to sell it - an example of it falling here would be a late night infomercial selling a "male enhancement" pill that disappears in a few weeks or a month, with no ongoing efforts to proclaim its usefulness or validity.
** BeatBag
** HustlingTheMark
** PigInAPoke
** QuickChange
** ScammingTheBereaved
** FourOneNineScam
** AllNaturalSnakeOil can fit here or above - depending on how much effort the scam intended to sell it involves and the elaborateness of it. For example, the RealLife [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Trudeau Kevin Trudeau]] scam empire would fall in here.
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** FakeCharity
** GoodForBad
** InsuranceFraud
** KansasCityShuffle
** LandmarkSale
** {{Ponzi}}
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** ScamReligion
** SpanishPrisoner
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** ViolinScam
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** AllNaturalSnakeOil can fall here or below depending on the elaborateness and effort of the scam intended to sell it - an example of it falling here would be a late night infomercial selling a "male enhancement" pill that disappears in a few weeks or a month, with no ongoing efforts to proclaim its usefulness or validity.
** BeatBag
** HustlingTheMark
** PigInAPoke
** QuickChange
** ScammingTheBereaved
** FourOneNineScam
** AllNaturalSnakeOil can fit here or above - depending on how much effort the scam intended to sell it involves and the elaborateness of it. For example, the RealLife [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Trudeau Kevin Trudeau]] scam empire would fall in here.
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** AllNaturalSnakeOil can fall here or below depending on the elaborateness and effort of the scam intended to sell it - an example of it falling here would be a late night infomercial selling a "male enhancement" pill that disappears in a few weeks or a month, with no ongoing efforts to proclaim its usefulness or validity.
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** PigInAPoke
** QuickChange
** ScammingTheBereaved
** FourOneNineScam
** AllNaturalSnakeOil can fit here or above - depending on how much effort the scam intended to sell it involves and the elaborateness of it. For example, the RealLife [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Trudeau Kevin Trudeau]] scam empire would fall in here.
** DelayedWire
** FakeCharity
** GoodForBad
** InsuranceFraud
** KansasCityShuffle
** LandmarkSale
** {{Ponzi}}
** RealEstateScam
** ScamReligion
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* ''Loki'' is not far behind, if there is someone in the Marvel universe they didn't con, and they already conned [[BeyondTheImpossible themself]], that must be probably part of a con yet to come. This is more evident in series featuring his kid (''Comicbook/JourneyIntoMystery'') and teen (''Comicbook/LokiAgentOfAsgard'') versions who don't have the raw magical power. They're the kind of guy who would con [[{{Devil}} Mephisto]] to get an inside man for a caper that turns out to be a diversion for a spy mission.
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* ''Loki'' is not far behind, if there is someone in the Marvel universe they didn't con, and they already conned [[BeyondTheImpossible themself]], that must be probably part of a con yet to come. This is more evident in series featuring his kid (''Comicbook/JourneyIntoMystery'') (''ComicBook/JourneyIntoMystery'') and teen (''Comicbook/LokiAgentOfAsgard'') (''ComicBook/LokiAgentOfAsgard'') versions who don't have the raw magical power. They're the kind of guy who would con [[{{Devil}} [[{{Satan}} Mephisto]] to get an inside man for a caper that turns out to be a diversion for a spy mission.
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* ''Film/{{Diggstown}}'' involves a GameOfWits between a hustler and a conman over a boxing match. Both try to rig the match in their favor, [[spoiler:but the conman ends up coming out on top, when he anticipates the hustler bringing in a SuperRinger in the form of a guy he knew from prison and bribes the inmate beforehand to throw the fight]].
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* ''Film/{{Diggstown}}'' involves a GameOfWits BattleOfWits between a hustler and a conman over a boxing match. Both try to rig the match in their favor, [[spoiler:but the conman ends up coming out on top, when he anticipates the hustler bringing in a SuperRinger in the form of a guy he knew from prison and bribes the inmate beforehand to throw the fight]].
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** {{Rainmaking}}
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* FakeMark
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