Scam

A scam, or confidence trick, is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their trust. Confidence tricks exploit victims using a combination of the victim's credulity, naïveté, compassion, vanity, confidence, irresponsibility, and greed. Researchers have defined confidence tricks as "a distinctive species of fraudulent conduct ... intending to further voluntary exchanges that are not mutually beneficial", as they "benefit con operators ('con men') at the expense of their victims (the 'marks')".

Several terms redirect here. For the 2016 film, see Confidence Game. For counterfeits, see Counterfeit consumer goods. For other uses, see Con Man, Con artist (disambiguation) and Scam (disambiguation).
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