A confidence trick is also known as a con game, a con, a scam, a grift, a hustle, a bunko (or bunco), a swindle, a flimflam, a gaffle, or a bamboozle.
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In the Russiagate Confidence Scheme, confidence men like John Brennan and Adam Schiff used the illusion of "secret information" to fleece millions from their audience. CNN, MSNBC, and a carnival of swindlers got in on the act for 2+ years
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In the QAnon Confidence Scheme digital anonymity allows the confidence men and false interested bystanders to be one and the same simultaneously. Writing the posts while also "decoding" the posts they themselves wrote, and taking in donations, selling books, apps, etc
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The funders of any confidence scheme are the people paying into it. The audience. The "marks" or "gulls" as they're called A shill (also called a plant) is a person who publicly helps or gives credibility to a person or organization without disclosing they have a relationship
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Confidence tricks exploit typical human characteristics such as greed, dishonesty, vanity, opportunism, lust, compassion, credulity, irresponsibility, desperation, and naïvety. As such, there is no consistent profile of a confidence trick victim
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Researchers Huang and Orbach argue: Cons succeed for inducing judgment errors—chiefly, errors arising from imperfect information and cognitive biases.
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Greed, the desire to ‘get something for nothing,’ is a shorthand expression of marks’ beliefs that too-good-to-be-true gains are realistic.
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Bottom Line: If something seems too good to be true, it probably is /END
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