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Miss Conman

Girls enter a beauty pageant and all give an entry fee, but when it comes down to finding a winner, the same girl wins (part of the con group) and keep all the hefty entry fees.

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Jealous Husband (The Badger game)

Young beautiful female approaches the person of interest in a bar, they talk and go to females house, as they undress the con artists husband comes in, he threatens the man with violence if he doesnt give the amount of money wanted

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$3 T-shirts

They post an ad for a cheap item or $3 T-shirt. The victim will send them money for their cheap shirt and when it never comes, they won't get mad over only $3. And if they do the person will just send them a cheap shirt.

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Monkey Paws AKA.  light wands - gambling

when you go to a casino and you do the slot machines they cant tell how much is being out in so basically you put fake coins in and play for free.

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Hit Man

Someone messages the victim and tells that they have been hired to kill them, but because the victim is a good person the victim can survive if they pay the "hitman" a certain price.

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Balloon Popping;
Basically you're paying $5 to throw darts at balloons that are suppose to have numbers or symbols inside of them. Nobody ever really wins these games because carnies rarely even put the numbers or symbols inside of their balloons. You're basically paying $5 or more to throw darts, pop a few balloons and walk away mad cause you wasted five dollars. If cops end up busting a Carny the Carny can just leave before they get caught, its easy to set up another booth when you don't play fair.

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3 Card Monte
The victim is drawn to a group of people playing a simple card game,following the winning card upon the 2 losing cards, and and they switch them up, upside down on a table and the victim thinks theyre in control and theyre gonna win but they still lose everytime and pick one of the none winning card.

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Your password is bad so you should feel bad...
The reason why you have to have passwords like @s411234 sasdk> is because of the guy that goes by the name Bill Bur. Everyone calls him the devil because of what he did. (to passwords)

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Advance Fee Fraud

Scams where they pay now, for a service that will never come. A variation of it would be Animal Safety. The con artist would tell them that if they send them money they will ship them an aminal in need of a safe home. The animals are perfectly safe inside the con man's mind because the sucker who fell for it will never receive their precious animal in need.

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Poodles As Pets

in japan poodles were about 3000AUD and poodles for pets sold them for 1600AUD and they were actually sheep imported from Australia and the UK and no one found out until a famous movie star maiko kawakami she said she was worried when she was on a talk show because her poodle wouldn't bark or eat and others wen to a vet to get there 'nails cliped" until the saw they were hoovs .

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sex toy scam (Lock stock scam):

the con artist puts advertisements up to the public,  the con artist says it can do dozens of functions, they promise it will get sent in a unaddressed box, it will show up on your card as a specific company name.

later (6 weeks later) the person that ordered the product, will receive an apology letter, and includes a check to give them a refund. the company that they receive the check from is called "Vibrating Anal Butt Plugs PTY LTD" most men are embarrassed to cash the check, and thats how the con artists make money.

An Australian man tried to do this, these scams are not very common.

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pool bolt
AKA:Knock Em Down Pool
The con artist will use three balls and places them into a tight triangle on the pool table so that each ball is touching the other two much like he is racking the balls up for a game of pool. In the middle of the triangle you will balance a bolt on it's head. The bolt is balancing on only it's flat head and the slightest gust of wind will bring it down.

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Banks
ATM'S
This is Called card skimming.
More then one  person involved and can become a large organization.
The tool is Called a  skimmer, it Copies The Pin number from  the Victim's ATM card.
It's attached to the ATM card slot.
The skimmer can now empty out a victim's total bank account.

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long cons- the big store
Aka: the Dollar store
Concept con artists to sell the legitimacy of their scam. In the big store scam the con artist creates an environment that is completely under his control. Everyone except for the victim is involved in the scam. S

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Ponzi Scams-  is like the pyramid scheme except the new investors are not expected to enlist new victims to maintain the flow of money.

Matrix Schemes- is when the con artists offer the victims an incredible deal. Ex:  You are selling a new IPhone per week for just $40. If the victim misses that week, their name is added to a waiting list and they get their IPhone as soon as there name reaches the top of the list.

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door to door
Door to door is when a con artist pays his way into any museum , cinema, a convention, a trade show, Theatre, a car show, a boat show, a sporting event or any other big event with large crowds coming in and out. Once inside, the con man finds himself a nice secluded side entrance, away from any ushers and most of all security.
At the same time, the other con artist heads around to any ticket booth or main entrance where people are paying big bucks to get in. He finds groups of like minded patrons and offers them cheap entrance at the side door. They head to the other side, pay the other con artist a far reduced price and he lets them in the side door.

Most of the time the scam is done with the knowledge of the people and staff at the event. But because security gaurd's and ushers don't make much money at all, it doesn't take that much of a bribe to convince them to keep quiet

The locksmith (aka key cutter scam)
victims ( people at home during the day)
Crew- one con artist can run the scam alone but it is better for that con man to have another person to play as the locksmith in.
The scam

the scam- The con man goes from door to door asking people if they can lend him some money so the locksmith will let him into his house because he lost his key, once he is in the house he promises to bring back the money but never does.

Variations-
1- having a confederate play the part of the locksmith
2- following a real locksmith and knocking on doors next to his van. The victim can see the locksmiths van
3- not asking for money but to use the phone. Once on the phone the locksmith will argue with his "wife" who refuses not to bail him out, the victim then offers to lend him money.
4- The con artist will have $180 and needs $20 more
Take- $20 - $200

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Con Artist

Its a scam where one person tries to convince somebody that they can do something that sounds impossible. Then it makes the other person want to bet against it. The hardest part is trying to get them to go along with the bet. Since it sounds so impossible they need to make the ones getting scammed feel like they made the best bet.

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Bar Bet  Match Burn

you have matches and you light one at a time and let it burn until it nearly gets to your finger then blow it out. you continually do it till your victim asks what you are doing. you say i once saw a man that held a burning match for 45 seconds. then the victim sees you fail and sooner or later a bet could be made that its impossible. to get 45 seconds you lit it and flip it upside down a wave it back and forth slowly so it will burn slower.

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Carnivals
Balloon Popping (aka. Carnival dart throw)

Its the game where you have the balloons, taped or pinned on the wall in some way, and you pay an amount of money for usually 3 throws. The idea here is that when you pop one of the balloons it is supposed to have a slip on the inside that tells you the prize you get. But the Issue or the scam here is that the person running the stand will do a few of 4 things, 1 dulls the tips of the darts with rocks causing them to bounce off the balloons, 2. Does not fully inflate the balloons thus making them unable to be popped, 3. All of the slips in the balloons are for bad or no prizes, or 4. they will put the balloon up in a way that when you hit anyone but the center of the balloon it just spins in circles. Running this scam for them is as easy as running the game. If they get busted, even if the police confiscate all of their equipment this scam is unbelievably easy to set up all you need its some "fake prizes", Balloons, and darts. With 5 dollars for 3 darts, you can think of how much money they can quickly make then dart out when they reach an amount they like.

Needle drop scam (carnival)

The runner draws a series of vertical parallel lines each line is exactly 2.5 cm apart and the length of the paper, The victim has to drop a toothpick, or needle exactly in-between the lines and has to be completely on the paper. If it is not he can throw again. To win the object dropped must not touch the line in any way. The victim has a 3.14 to 2 chance of hitting a line so the odds are well in his favor, to keep the victim interested the needle must land close to the line so they feel skill or practice will allow them to win. But it must also land far enough away to seem random, the con artist must avoid a skillful throw. But the main scam here is that you will bet on everytime as it can be run as a bar bet to a carnival game. But as the distance between the line is shorter than the needle it is a 3.14 to 2 chance of getting into the line so basically impossible for the victim and since it seems as a skill game really no risk for the con artist. A similar scam known as the coin drop runs off of basically the same rules and same setup.

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Loaded Dice is when one side of the dice are weighed so that they always land on that specific number set, for example they might be weighed for a 3 on one die and a 4 on the other so you can only get 7. Most of the time the user will use a cup so it's easier to switch back and forth between regular dice and loaded dice, the cup also helps make the throw seem more even or fair.

The worlds best hooker is about when a con artist acts as a pimp looking for guys that want to do things with a woman. Then the con artist gets him interested he tells him he must pay commission, then the con artist tells he or she to go into the room and it locks when the person gets into the room and some of the con artists accomplices beat up and take everything from the guy or girl. The person getting mugged is less likely to call the cops because they would have to explain why they were there.

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The Sex Toy Scam

When you go to their website to purchase the toy you want to buy and after you pay for it and the money is taken out of your account they say that it cant be shipped and after they send you back a check that says VIBRATING BUTT PLUG and if they are too embarrassed to take the check somewhere they get to keep the money cause they most likely won't cash the check

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The String Game- Carnivals:

The Con artist gets a victim to pay a few dollars to try and win one of the prizes. The con artist stands in front of a box with strings attached to each of the prizes.   There's some cheap and expensive prizes to win. The victim gets to pick one of the loose strings in the con's hand and whatever prize the string connected to is what the person wins. However the good prizes the strings were attached to will not end in the cons fist. They'll go in one end but not the other . No matter what string the person gets it wont be the great expensive prize

Gas Leak scam-
2 people dressed up in work clothes with tool boxes show up at someones house saying that there neighbors  has lost gas pressure and they needed to check everyone around them. One con artist asks to see the basement while the other puts methylated spirits on a gas pipe. Then they  light it and start yelling how there's a major gas leak and fire. Then they turn off the gas and put out the fire. the con artists tells the victim the problem wont be fixed for 2 weeks unless they have money up front.The money is usually $200-500$ . Then they usually pay them and they take the money and flee.

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Moving match stick- bar bet

You put three matches in the shape of a pyramid with the sulfur part upwards and a coin under one of the matches and you bet someone that you can get the coin out without touching the matches and with out them falling then you take out another match light it on fire and two things will happen the sulfur ends will fuse together and the match that is on the coin will curl up and you can grab the coin