A confidence trick is an attempt to defraud a person or group by gaining their confidence. A confidence artist is an individual operating alone or in concert with others who exploits characteristics of the human psyche such as dishonesty and honesty, vanity, compassion, credulity, irresponsibility, naivety and greed.

Contents

• 1 Terminology
• 2 History
• 3 Vulnerability to confidence tricks
• 4 Popular culture
• 5 See also
• 6 References
• 7 Further reading
• 8 External links

Noun

Scam

Wikipedia scam (plural scams)

1. Fraudulent deal.

   That marketing scheme looks like a scam to me.

Synonyms

• con game
• See also Wikisaurus:deception

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• Chain Letters (5)
• Computer Virus Hoaxes@ (13)
• Fake Escrow Sites (1)
• Identity Theft@ (75)

• Make Money Fast (15)
• Nigerian Email Fraud@ (27)
• Phishing@ (20)

See also:

• Computers: Internet: Abuse (91)
• Computers: Internet: E-mail: Spam (487)
• Reference: Education: Instructional Technology: Evaluation: Web Site Evaluation (81)
• Society: Issues: Business: Allegedly Unethical Firms (540)
• Society: Issues: Science and Technology: Computers: Internet (107)

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• Internet ScamBusters
  scambusters.com
  Extensive information on fraud, scams, hoaxes, urban legends and credit card fraud. Free e-zine and reports.
• Digital Age Fraud
  digitalagefraud.com
  Central source of information about the Digital Age Cyprus MasterCard/Visa fraudulent charge.
• Money Laundering Fraud
  bobbear.co.uk
  Tracks current fraudulent "money mule" operations operated through the Internet.