THE scams have long been in existence, and follow a notorious lineage that can be traced to the term “confidence trick” whereby an attempt is made to defraud a person or a group into gaining their trust by exploiting their credulity, naivete, compassion, vanity, irresponsibility or greed.
That is where the word “con” stems from, and how terms like “con artist” or “con men” came about.
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