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A long con or big con (also, chiefly in British English, long game) [4] is a scam that unfolds over several days or weeks; it may involve a team of swindlers, and even props, sets, extras, costumes, and scripted lines. It aims to rob the victim of a huge amount of money or other valuables, often by getting them to empty out banking accounts and ...
A "swindle" is a pitfall adopted by a player who has a clearly lost game. [3] Horowitz and Reinfeld observe that swindles, "though ignored in virtually all chess books", "play an enormously important role in over-the-board chess, and decide the fate of countless games".
The Swindle, a French crime-comedy film directed by Claude Chabrol and starring Isabelle Huppert; Swindle, a crime thriller starring Tom Sizemore and Sherilyn Fenn; Swindle, a television film based on Gordon Korman's book Swindle
The Pardoner, from the Ellesmere Chaucer. A distinction is drawn between the charlatan and other kinds of confidence tricksters. The charlatan is usually a salesperson of a certain service or product, who has no personal relationship with his "marks" (customers or clients), and avoids elaborate hoaxes or roleplaying con-games.
A parking attendant at Long Island’s UBS Arena was busted for allegedly swindling hockey fans and concertgoers into paying him personally – without ever transferring nearly $5,000 that he’d ...
Harmless prank or minor crime? Here is what NC law says about it.
Extortion is a common law crime in Scotland of using threat of harm to demand money, property or some advantage from another person. It does not matter whether the demand itself is legitimate (such as for money owed) as the crime can still be committed when illegitimate threats of harm are used. [7] [8]
A Fresno hairstylist will spend nearly 16 years in prison for stealing millions of dollars from a mentally ill doctor and then attempting to defraud the man's estate after his death.