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Confidence trick

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A method of cheating somebody by winning their confidence and having them hand over their money (or other valuables).

    "He was telling northern Europeans that some of the devotions which most deeply satisfied them […] were nothing but clerical confidence tricks."

  2. 2
    a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property wordnet

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