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- The Sting. Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw. 472 votes. Following the murder of a mutual friend, aspiring con man Johnny Hooker (Robert Redford) teams up with old pro Henry Gondorff (Paul Newman) to take revenge on the ruthless crime boss responsible, Doyle Lonnegan (Robert Shaw).
- The Usual Suspects. Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Chazz Palminteri. 364 votes. The Usual Suspects is a mystery-thriller that keeps you guessing until the very end.
- Ocean's Eleven. George Clooney, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia. 450 votes. Ocean's Eleven, a stylish heist film, revolves around the suave mastermind Danny Ocean (George Clooney) and his handpicked crew of specialists.
- Catch Me If You Can. Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken. 602 votes. In the thrilling film Catch Me If You Can, we follow the intriguing escapades of Frank Abagnale Jr.
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- The Sting. No discussion of con artists in cinema is complete without the pinnacle of the genre, 1973's "The Sting." Starring the titans of cinema Robert Redford, Paul Newman, and Robert Shaw, "The Sting" is also the most lauded and successful con artist movie by far.
- Catch Me If You Can. The great Steven Spielberg and Leonardo DiCaprio joined forces to tell the story of Frank Abagnale Jr., perhaps the greatest American con artist, in "Catch Me If You Can."
- The Brothers Bloom. An early and unheralded film from director Rian Johnson of "Knives Out" fame (and "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" infamy), "The Brothers Bloom" might be "the" con artist movie.
- Paper Moon. "Paper Moon" is a classic con artist movie, an ode to a bygone era of the quick small-time grift. Set in the rural stretches of the country during the height of the Great Depression, confidence man Moze Pray (Ryan O'Neal) is content to drift the country and run the quick change scam at diners, or con recently widowed women into believing their late husbands had ordered a special engraved Bible.
Many con artists employ extra tricks to keep the victim from going to the police. A common ploy of investment scammers is to encourage a mark to use money concealed from tax authorities. The mark cannot go to the authorities without revealing that they have committed tax fraud. Many swindles involve a minor element of crime or some other misdeed.
Sep 26, 2019 · By definition, a con artist is a manipulator who cheats, or tricks, others through persuading them to believe something that is not true. Through deception, they fool people into believing...
- Cathy Scott
A scam, or a confidence trick, is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their trust. Confidence tricks exploit victims using a combination of the victim's credulity, naïveté, compassion, vanity, confidence, irresponsibility, and greed.
Under common law, false pretense is defined as a representation of a present or past fact, which the thief knows to be false, and which he intends will and does cause the victim to pass title of his property.
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