==== A List of cons, hustles & scams ====

see also {{wp>List_of_scams}}

  * Ponzi Scheme (1918)
  * The "Money-Box Scheme"
  * Spanish Prisoner (the advance-fee scam or "Nigerian Prince")
  * Fiddle game
  * Jamaican Switch / Pigeon drop
  * Green goods
  * Pig in a poke (cat in a bag) (late Middle Ages)
  * Iraqi Dinar
  * Badger game
  * Clip joint
  * Melon drop
  * Baltimore Stockbroker
  * Three-card Monte
  * Diploma mill
  * World Luxury Association
  * Phishing
  * Technical support scam
  * The Affinity Church scam
  * Beijing tea
  * Big Store
  * Change raising
  * Mystery shopping
  * Predatory journals
  * Psychic surgery
  * Rain making
  * boiler-room scam
  * 419 scam
  * Rip deal
  * Unsolicited goods
  * Catfishing
  * Cackle-bladder
  * Kansas City shuffle‍
  * Little blind mouse
  * Pump and Dump‍
  * Salting ‍the mine
  * Toledo Panic Button‍

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  * The Lost Heir
  * A Rip Deal
  * The Spanish Prisoner
  * The London Spank
  * The Geneva Paso Doble
  * The Apple Pie (“It’s like the Cherry Pie, but with lifeguards.”)
  * The Cherry Pie
  * Glengarry, Glen Death
  * The Turnabout
  * Ponzi Scheme
  * The Mona Lisa Variant
  * The Wire Game
  * The Swedish Rail Con
  * The Cairo Flyer
  * The Double-Blind
  * A Fiddle Game
  * The Pill Scare
  * The Berlin Shuffle
  * Little Orphan Annie
  * The Skagway Shuffle
  * The Mummy’s Tiara
  * The Vegas Wake-Up Call
  * Like the Cuban Sandwich except “the boyfriend shows up.”
  * The Cuban Sandwich
  * An Edward Albee
  * The Spanish Turnabout
  * The Peking Watch
  * The Moscow Circus
  * The Romanian Circus
  * The Snipe Hunt (“she’s running a variant. It’s called a Snipe Hunt. It’s the Circus, but it’s leaner and faster.”)
  * The Roman Wedding
  * The Peruvian Slide
  * The Boca Backlash
  * The Oklahoma Little Chucky
  * The Chilean Custard
  * The Moonwalking Bear
  * The Big Store
  * The MassDOT Special
  * The Wicked Stepsister
  * The High Minne Scam Variant
  * The Lazy Dachshund
  * The Pizarro Pressure Point
  * The Double-Pronged Monkey Con
  * A Radio Play
  * The Oligschlager Shuffle
  * The Arkham Ascent
  * The White Van Speakers
  * The White Rabbit
  * A Swap-and-Whisper Campaign
  * The Trojan Horse
  * The Burn Scam
  * The Nigerian Prince
  * The Smash and Grab
  * Three Card Monte
  * Zanzibar Marketplace