** Salting ( confidence trick ), process of adding valuable substances to a core sample, or otherwise scattering valuable resources on a piece of property to be " discovered " by a prospective buyer

This is a confidence trick in which the mark, or " pigeon ", is persuaded to give up a sum of money in order to secure the rights to a larger sum of money, or more valuable object.

* Oliver Letwin, Member of Parliament, who was the victim of a confidence trick at his Kennington home.

A confidence trick is an attempt to defraud a person or group by gaining their confidence.

* A confidence trick is also known as:

* The perpetrator of a confidence trick is often referred to as

As such, there is no consistent profile of a confidence trick victim ; the common factor is simply that the victim relies on the good faith of the con artist.

Victims of investment scams tend to show an incautious level of greed and gullibility, and many con artists target the elderly, but even alert and educated people may be taken in by other forms of confidence trick.

In a traditional confidence trick, the mark is led to believe that he will be able to win money or some other prize by doing some task.

A scam or confidence trick is an attempt to defraud a person or group by gaining their confidence.

* Confidence trick ( also known as a bunko, con, flim flam, gaffle, grift, hustle, scam, scheme, swindle or bamboozle ): an attempt to defraud a person or group by gaining their confidence.

With the help of a group of anthropomorphic crows, Timothy is able to get Dumbo to fly again, using a psychological trick of a " magic feather " to boost his confidence.

John Constantine cuts his own wrists, in order to free himself from consciousness, and plays a confidence trick on the beast, allowing his friends time to use the collective consciousness to rebuild the guardian that had kept the beast trapped.

Abagnale's first confidence trick was writing personal checks on his own overdrawn account.

The Spanish Prisoner is a confidence trick originating in the late 19th century.

Key features of the Spanish Prisoner trick are the emphasis on secrecy and the trust the confidence trickster apparently places in the mark not to reveal the prisoner's identity or situation.

The 1997 film The Spanish Prisoner, written and directed by David Mamet, includes such a confidence trick as part of the plot, as does his other film about con men, House of Games ( 1987 ).

# REDIRECT confidence trick

A charlatan ( also called swindler or mountebank ) is a person practicing quackery or some similar confidence trick in order to obtain money, fame or other advantages via some form of pretense or deception.

Less attracted to pop music, Spiegl once called the Beatles phenomenon " the greatest confidence trick since the Virgin Birth ".

Hustling is the deceptive act of disguising one's skill in a sport or game with the intent of luring someone of probably lesser skill into gambling ( or gambling for higher than current stakes ) with the hustler, as a form of confidence trick.

The shell game ( also known as Thimblerig, Three shells and a pea, the old army game ) is portrayed as a gambling game, but in reality, when a wager for money is made, it is a confidence trick used to perpetrate fraud.

In confidence trick slang, this swindle is referred to as a short-con because it is quick and easy to pull off.

It is curious that even centuries of repetition of the yearly cycle did not induce a sufficient degree of confidence to allow people to abandon the ceremonies of the winter solstice.

But is the result new barnsful of tested knowledge on the basis of which we can with confidence solve our domestic and international problems??

Although we continue to pay our conversational devotions to `` free private enterprise '', `` individual initiative '', `` the democratic way '', `` government of the people '', `` competition of the marketplace '', etc., we live rather comfortably in a society in which economic competition is diminishing in large areas, bureaucracy is corroding representative government, technology is weakening the citizen's confidence in his own power to make decisions, and the threat of war is driving him economically and physically into the ground ''.

and it is to be noted also that confidence should grow from remembering that great men often appeared in the past to turn local catastrophe into future good for all mankind.

My aim in mentioning this factor obviously is not to give license to `` wild therapy '' but rather to encourage us to use the time-honored clinical casework skills we already possess, and to use them with greater confidence, precision, and professional pride.

A sense of self-certainty and the freedom to experiment with different roles, or confidence in one's own unique behavior as an alternative to peer-group conformity, is more easily developed during adolescence if, during early childhood, the individual was permitted to exercise initiative and encouraged to develop some autonomy.

In another sense, it is represented in the arguments of the `` true believers '' who seek to disprove the validity of all other beliefs and ideas in order to retain confidence in theirs.

and again, that `` the object of non-violent resistance is partly analogous to this object of war -- namely, to demoralize the opponent, to break his will, to destroy his confidence, enthusiasm, and hope.

These contend there is a serious question as to whether Mr. Wagner has the confidence of the Democratic rank and file in the city.

I think everybody is agreed that we need to hear some voice on the national level that would make some sense and in which we would have some confidence in following.

Instead of her old confidence in the simplest, purest, most moving musical expression, Miss Schwarzkopf is letting herself be tempted by the classic sin of artistic pride -- that subtle vanity that sometimes misleads a great artist into thinking that he or she can somehow better the music by bringing to it something extra, some personal dramatic touch imposed from the outside.

insufficient and that reporting confidence bounds is preferred.

He explains that the difference between belief and fiction is that the former produces a certain feeling of confidence which the latter doesn't.

However, Twomey expresses confidence that, if the High Court of Australia were to be faced with the problems of covering clause 2, it would find some way to conclude that, with regard to Australia, the clause is subject solely to Australian law.

Through the sacrament a gift of the Holy Spirit is given, that renews confidence and faith in God and strengthens against temptations to discouragement, despair and anguish at the thought of death and the struggle of death ; it prevents from losing Christian hope in God's justice, truth and salvation.

Such a thin chronology and little background knowledge has led to gross misinterpretations of his works, and thus further investigation must always be done to conclude with confidence that Aelbert Cuyp is the genuine source of such great paintings.

The objective is to provide confidence that the delivered system meets the business requirements of both sponsors and users.

However, another interpretation is that Job's silence is defiant, and that what he gives up is not his belief that justice be done, but his confidence that God will behave justly.

While the book is relatively short it includes lament ( 1. 8-16 ; 7. 8-10 ), theophany ( 1. 3-4 ), hymnic prayer of petition and confidence ( 7. 14-20 ), and the " covenant lawsuit " ( 6. 1-8 ), a distinct genre in which Yahweh ( God ) sues Israel for breach of contract, that is, for violation of the Sinai covenant.