CONFIDENCE SCHEMES

confidence scheme (or confidence game, con trick, or swindle) is a fraudulent operation where a perpetrator (the "con artist" or "grifter") gains a target's (the "mark's") trust and exploits human traits—such as greed, compassion, vanity, or naivety—to steal money, property, or sensitive information...

Articles relating to confidence tricks, attempts to defraud a person or group after first gaining their trust. Confidence tricks exploit victims using their credulity, naïveté, compassion, vanity, irresponsibility, and greed.