Scam Quotes

It's true that people will take advantage of you in Nigeria, but this happens everywhere in the world.

A gold mine is a hole in the ground with a liar at the bottom.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.

I've been racketeered on.

I think one of the biggest scams in law enforcement is the monitor.

I figure I'm a mandolin player first and foremost, and everything else I've accomplished is just a scam.

Well, I don't think that the SAT is a scam.

The most important thing for any con artist is never to think like a mark. Marks think they can get something for nothing. Marks think they can get what they don’t deserve and could never deserve. Marks are stupid and pathetic and sad. Marks think they’re going to go home one night and have the girl they’ve loved since they were a kid suddenly love them back. Marks forget that whenever something’s too good to be true, that’s because it’s a con.

Bofors was a scam. Rafale is not.

The best confidence artist makes us feel not as if we're being taken for a ride but as if we are genuinely wonderful human beings who are acting the way wonderful human beings act and getting what we deserve.

We can all be conned but at what point do we realize that we're being conned and to what point do we allow ourselves to be conned?

And I think it's because good cons are all based on the victim's need, and the successful con artist is the one, I guess, who can exploit that. I remember reading something about this, that one of the great traits of confidence tricksters is the level that they flatter their victim.

Police in Texas arrested a man who was using the alias 'Barack Obama' while trying to steal money from 35 ATMs. They could tell something was up when a guy named Barack Obama was trying to take money from banks instead of giving it to them.

What we have to do now is to make the public at large aware that what we're looking at is not a historical event but - and I have to be brutal and I am going to say it - a racket.

My father was a good man, but he was a con man. He was a wanderer, nomadic.

If a deal looks too good to be true, it probably is.

I believe we have been fleeced.

You set me up," I say. "One big con. You can't blame me because I turned out not to be gullible enough. You can't blame the mark. That's not how it works. Have some respect for the nature of the game.

It was the heart of any scam or fiddle -- keep the punter uncertain, or, if he is certain, make him certain of the wrong thing.

No Ponzi schemer tells anyone exactly how it works. The purpose of a Ponzi scheme is to trick people, to take the money and run.

Life is a publicity stunt. A shill. You've been had.

My identity was stolen by two separate peoplewho I hope are playing me better

I had one guy pretend to be me, go to a hotel room, and tell the people at the front desk that it was me, and then he went in and stole all of our luggage. There's always that eager beaver that wants to be a part of the team and comes off as a sticky fly.

A successful swindler has to be a great salesman even more than a great actor.