She reminded me of someone running a confidence game.
It isn't likely the town marshal would call in the Rangers for a simple confidence game, he's not that important.
He failed to convince the officials, who also suspected trickery or a confidence game.
In both of those cases, a woman is drawn into a confidence game.
"There was a police lieutenant talking on television the other day about confidence games," said Pete.
He sat back in the saddle, accepting her confidence game.
When Hartzell realized the deal was a confidence game, he decided to use it to his own advantage.
Doll and company decide to set up a confidence game, what was then called "coney-catching."
The man wondered if Jackson was trying to rook him with a confidence game of his own.
He made his mistake, however, when he tried to fool me with a confidence game.
"Sometimes I think it's the biggest con job in the world," said another.
"Weak and transparent con jobs have never been a problem."
This obsession with all forms of higher education is an expensive con job.
In fact, this sounds like a classic con job to me!
And on the subject of amazing con jobs, let us not forget the owners.
"Then it has to be some sort of con job."
Most of us just ignored him, knowing a con job when we saw one.
These groups have the resources to do a better con job on the media than I can.
I had been taken in completely by the poisonous con job.
But today people hear something like 40,000 commercials every year, and they are not going to buy a con job.