(the 'marks')". Other terms for "scam" include confidence trick, con, con game, confidence game, confidence scheme, ripoff, stratagem, finesse, grift, hustle...

Confidence Game is a 2016 American thriller film written and directed by Deborah Twiss. The film stars Sean Young, Deborah Twiss, James McCaffrey, and...

The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It . . . Every Time is a 2016 non-fiction book by Maria Konnikova. It explains the psychology of con artists and...

Confidence is the feeling of belief or trust that a person or thing is reliable. Self-confidence is trust in oneself. Self-confidence involves a positive...

Three-card monte – also known as find the lady and three-card trick – is a confidence game in which the victims, or "marks", are tricked into betting a sum of...

practice, the game is almost always run as a confidence trick that uses sleight of hand to transfer the marker between covers. In confidence trick slang...

Award and the Anthony Award for Best Nonfiction in 2013. Her book The Confidence Game was published in 2016 and appeared on the New York Times' Crime and...

A "Kansas City Shuffle" is an advanced form of a bait-and-switch confidence game employing misdirection, deception, and playing on the "mark's" arrogance...

tells a story of corporate espionage conducted through an elaborate confidence game. In 1999 it was nominated by the Mystery Writers of America for the...

which is decided at the beginning of the round. Bunco was originally a confidence game similar to three-card monte. It originated in 19th-century England...

career cooled. Young reprised her role as Rachael in the Blade Runner video game released in 1997. Young has appeared in independent films, including roles...

wrong one, it is not actually around the object and is "loose". The confidence game involves the fact that which loop is fast changes depending on the...

refer to: Confidence (politics), trust in government Confidence interval, a term used in statistical analysis Confidence trick (or confidence game, or "con")...

2025. Hogan, Michael (25 April 2020). "Roisin Conaty: 'Standup is a confidence game. You sell the sizzle, not the sausage'". The Guardian. Retrieved 10...

it. Early instances of its use are found among salesmen, gamblers and confidence tricksters. Barnum's biographer Arthur H. Saxon tried to track down when...

players involved, including Rodrigo and Hannigan, were playing a "confidence game" against Gaddis from the very beginning, so that Valerie and Michael...

notable individuals who exploited confidence tricks. William Chaloner (1650–1699): Serial counterfeiter and confidence trickster proven guilty by Sir Isaac...

on Long Island, New York on April 23, 2023. Taking Woodstock (2008) Confidence Game (2016) Tu Me Manques (2017) Sarah Q (2018) The Moon in Deep Winter...

Paddock was convicted of ten counts of auto larceny and five counts of confidence game and was confined at the Illinois State Penitentiary until July 1951...

Scams and confidence tricks are difficult to classify, because they change often and often contain elements of more than one type. Throughout this list...

solo ep entitled Confidence Game. Recorded in Denver, Colorado, and made up of five new acoustic Burnett compositions, Confidence Game also included an...

her confidence, she would then be encouraged to invest in another co-owned horse, repeating the cycle. The men who worked this form of confidence game often...

The story of Ackman's battle with MBIA was turned into a book called Confidence Game (Wiley, 2010) by Bloomberg News reporter Christine Richard. He reported...

Omaha, Nebraska": pp. 59, 122-124). SSRN 2391775. Richard, Christine. Confidence Game (Wiley, 2010) with Bloomberg News. Shane Parrish (2020). "Bill Ackman:...

the Wheetly fortune. The show closes on a well-planned, years-long confidence game that has been resolved. Jillian Murray as Brandi Cox Marnette Patterson...

This is a list of fictional portrayals of confidence tricks found in television and the movies. Blonde Crazy (1931) – directed by Roy Del Ruth; the main...

actor best known for his voice role as Max Payne in the Max Payne video game series, Jimmy Keefe on Rescue Me (2004–2011), and Captain Arthur O'Breun...

several episodes of Foreign Intrigue, but most noticeably in "The Confidence Game" and "The Playful Prince", he can be heard playing on the piano his...

Barer, Charteris made the decision to remove Templar from his usual confidence-game trappings, not to mention his usual co-stars Uniatz, girlfriend Patricia...

contrary evidence. A confidence trick or confidence game is an attempt to defraud a person or group by gaining their confidence. Confidence artists exploit...