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 | Confidence Trick CONFIDENCE TRICK A confidence trick, confidence game, also known as a con, scam, grift or flim flam, is an attempt to intentionally mislead a person or persons (known as the "mark") usually with the goal of financial or other gain.  The confidence trickster, con man, grifter, scam artist or con artist often works with one or more accomplices called shills, who try to encourage the mark by pretending to believe the trickster. In a traditional con, the mark is encouraged to believe that they will obtain money dishonestly by cheating a third party, and is stunned to find that due to what appears to be an error in pulling off the scam they are the one who loses money; in more general use, the term con is used for any fraud in which the victim is tricked into losing money by false promises of gain. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Looks like he did a pretty good job of tricking the majority of Americans into voting for him. He even rigged it so he got elected with least votes than Gore in 2000. My kinda guy. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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