grifts

I've always been obsessed with the actual mechanics of grifts, so I actually ate up the whole roaming conman middle section.

NIGHTMARE ALLEY by William Lindsay Gresham 2010

Vice-president of the most powerful country in the world who not only helps head-fake a nation into a needless war in Iraq, but also one who grifts some cash from the reconstruction of that very territory he destroyed.

Scott Thill: Postmodernists and Profiteers 2008

And if you spot some of these grifts popping up on Leverage...

It Takes a Thief Rogers 2008

And if you spot some of these grifts popping up on Leverage, ummm -- homage.

Archive 2008-07-20 Rogers 2008

He would be running small grifts on small businesses, or he would be unhappily holding a bottom of the barrel white collar job.

The Phantom Strikes! Steven Barnes 2008

And if you spot some of these grifts popping up on Leverage, ummm -- homage.

It Takes a Thief Rogers 2008

Get ready to see one of Hillary's grifts masquerading as an economic plan each week from here on in.

"Hillary Clinton proposed a $70 economic stimulus package today that would help...." Ann Althouse 2008

But then, people are people and grifts work for that very reason.

dustbury.com » Sniff, then scratch 2007

I'm fascinated not only by Jay's unparalleled talent as a prestidigitator, but also his insatiable curiosity for the wonderful, obscure, and strange -- from the freaks and fringe-dwellers featured in his newsletter/book Jay's Journal of Anomalies to his comprehensive knowledge of old-time grifts and scams.

Boing Boing: June 13, 2004 - June 19, 2004 Archives 2004

In traditional "Big Con" grifts, the roper and the inside man work to convince the mark that by participating in some bit of harmless larceny, he will become immensely wealthy.

Boing Boing: November 24, 2002 - November 30, 2002 Archives 2002