Mon.
Tue.
Change my location 
List All Categories
-
- Con artists (10)
- fraud (8)
- E-mail (6)
- sales tactics (5)
- hoax (4)
- Identity Theft (4)
- phone solicitors (4)
- door-to-door (3)
- movies (3)
- suspicion (3)
Scam Examiner
Showing entries for Category: Three-Card-Monte
Showing entries for Category: Three-Card-Monte
When magic goes bad
|
Street scams like Three Card Monte are magic tricks, except with bystander betting instead of pass-the-hat tipping. While the con game varies, you can be pretty sure of several things. --Anyone winning or offering you advice is working with the scammer. --Anything the scammer says misdirects your attention. --The scammer knows the Throw (throwing either the top or bottom card when holding two) even if he appears clumsy. --Your money will disappear like magic. The sound quality of the following '80s recording is poor, but it is worth watching to see sleight-of-hand master magician Dai Vernon (1894-1992) at work. Vernon gleaned much information and skill befriending con artists and cardsharps, but he worked legit as an entertainer. Street suckers everywhere can be grateful.
|
Subscribe
Categories:
2
Comments:
Link 
Karin Malchow
Gullible suburban mother of four regularly duped in her half-century life. Exploring hoaxes and schemes as the ExSCAMiner, she attempts answering the nagging question: Should I have fallen for that? Got scam tips, email Karin at ScamExaminer@gmail.com.
Gullible suburban mother of four regularly duped in her half-century life. Exploring hoaxes and schemes as the ExSCAMiner, she attempts answering the nagging question: Should I have fallen for that? Got scam tips, email Karin at ScamExaminer@gmail.com.
- What people do for a free lunch
- Even Founding Fathers got scammed
- Killer text message scam hits Australia
- Cross dressing cinema
- The fraudulent personality
- Identity in a box
- In government we trust?
- Panhandling 101
- Tugging at heartstrings and pursestrings
- An open letter to vacuum cleaner salesmen
Search for more posts
subscribe to Scam Examiner's posts
- Directly forward unsolicited commercial e-mail to SPAM@UCD.gov
Dr. John - The City That Care Forgot (429 Records, 2008)
Working Out Your Back
Nadal and Federer give us a Wimbledon final to remember
