What is "confidence tricksters"

Usage examples of "confidence tricksters".

As with all the best confidence tricksters, his personal grooming was immaculate.

And yet I had been months in the town and thought I knew all about confidence tricksters, how they came slinking out of side streets by night to meet us with outstretched hands like tavernkeepers, how they haunted the advertisement pillars we stood beside, sliding around them as if playing hide-and-seek and spying on us with at least one eye, how they suddenly appeared on the curb of the pavement at cross-streets when we were hesitating!

I have met one or two Australians - usually the victims of confidence tricksters.

I'd checked on all sorts of proposed business plans and saved a lot of people from confidence tricksters, and I'd uncovered absconding debtors, and thieves of all sorts, and had proved a confounded nuisance to imaginative felons.

It applies equally to bigamists, confidence tricksters, thieves, and murderers.

It was plain to George now that the sun and the wind were a couple of confidence tricksters working together as a team.

Scandalmongers did a busy trade in all the latest gossip, and confidence tricksters strolled elegantly down the Promenade, eyeing the Quality in much the same way as a cruising shark might observe a passing shoal of minnows.

I might be working with a gang of shoplifters, confidence tricksters.