confidence game
- A deceitful practice where an individual acquires money by gaining another person's trust
- In a classic confidence game, the swindler deceived the elderly woman to rob her of her life savings.
- Prosecutors alleged the company's investment scheme was nothing more than a confidence game.
- After being a victim of a confidence game, he has since become very wary of getting involved in ventures with people he doesn't know well.
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