A better argument against the Government's pension cut proposals is that they are a confidence trick.

The operation was somewhat of a confidence trick, anyway, wasn't it?

Yet the lies, and confidence tricks, of these shabby people continue.

The fiddle game is a confidence trick, involving two men.

This confidence trick was already in use by the turn of the 15th century.

What kind of confidence trick was this, if someone had shot Antonov to try to prevent him from coming to me?

Soon afterwards, Gary was back on drugs, living with a girl, and then came numerous confidence tricks.

And without this faith, so much of the modern financial world is nothing but a confidence trick.

Perhaps it was a way of introducing himself into houses and working some confidence trick.

Social engineering, like any form of confidence trick, depends on human weakness.

"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.