Confidence Tricks - Confidence Trick, Pyramid Scheme, Ponzi Scheme, Cold Reading, List of Confidence Tricks, List of Ponzi Schemes, White (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 61. Chapters: Confidence trick, Pyramid scheme, Ponzi scheme, Cold reading, List of confidence tricks, List of Ponzi schemes, White van speaker scam, Strip search prank call scam, Great Reality TV Swindle, Enzyte, Hongcheng Magic Liquid, Three-card Monte, Art student scam, Work-at-home scheme, Miracle cars scam, Scams in intellectual property, Fortune telling fraud, Hustling, Black money scam, Shell game, E-mail fraud, Pig in a poke, Clip joint, Reloading scam, Hot reading, Television Preview, Spanish Prisoner, Mock auction, Thai gem scam, List of e-mail scams, Moving scam, Shyster, Vanity gallery, Slavery reparations scam, Badger game, Patent safe, BioPerformance, Coin rolling scams, Children of Lieutenant Schmidt, El Gordo de la Primitiva Lottery International Promotions Programmes, Flim-Flam Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions, Cramming, Embarrassing cheque, Thai tailor scam, The switch, Green goods scam, Pigeon drop, Sucker list, Bogus escrow, Fiddle game, Azeztulite, Welsh Thrasher faith scam, Kansas City Shuffle, Thai zig zag scam, Bride scam, Drop swindle, Salting, Sandbagging. Excerpt: This list of confidence tricks and scams should not be considered complete, but covers the most common examples. Confidence tricks and scams are difficult to classify, because they change often and often contain elements of more than one type. Throughout this list, the perpetrator of the confidence trick is called the "con artist" or simply "artist," and the intended victim is the "mark." Get-rich-quick schemes are extremely varied; these include fake franchises, real estate "sure things," get-rich-quick books, wealth-building seminars, self-help gurus, sure-fire inventions, useless products, chain letters, fortune tellers, quack doctors, miracle pharmaceuticals, Nigerian money scams, charms and talismans....