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con game

NOUN
confidence game
Synonyms
WEAK
Ponzi bait and switch boiler room bunco game bunko con con job confidence trick flimflam hustle racket ripoff shell game skin game sting swindle

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"Stefan Pildes promoted SantaCon as an event grounded in charitable giving, but instead of donating the millions of dollars he raised, he ran his own con game," US Attorney Jay Clayton said in a statement.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

Great acting is a con game, of the highest order, and it’s a pleasure to be Moore’s mark.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 2023

Durant was a con game presented by the front office — even if they were conning themselves.

From Washington Times • Jun. 7, 2022

These movies ask: To what extent is love a con game?

From Washington Post • Dec. 29, 2018

In the spirit of their shipboard con game, they continued to spin out false histories for themselves, inventing brothers and sisters with plausible names, cousins with moral shortcomings, in-laws with facial tics.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides