RBS is working with government and private sector-backed information service on Internet safety and security, Get Safe Online, to raise awareness of "social engineering" scams, which are a type of
confidence trick where social engineering is used to deceive, manipulate or trick victims into certain actions, including divulging personal or financial information.
A huge money spinning confidence racket and
confidence trick.
Summary: Iran Thursday stepped up attempts to normalize its relations with the West with a Davos charm offensive that was immediately attacked by Israel as a
confidence trick.
A smooth-talking operator tried to pull off a remarkable
confidence trick, allowing bankers to be paid whatever bonus they liked.
Judge Richard Hone, who sentenced Mr McCormick, said his "callous
confidence trick" had likely cost lives.
James McCormick, 57, showed no reaction as he was told his "callous
confidence trick" was the worst fraud imaginable.
Jailing Saghir Afzal and McGarry last summer, Judge Beddoe described the fraud as a "massive and carefully orchestrated
confidence trick".
She rejected the suggestion that her release from more than two decades of house arrest in 2010 had been a "
confidence trick" aimed at getting sanctions on the country lifted.
The 'long con' is an extended
confidence trick involving an elaborate story executed over a long period of time that is aimed at convincing the target that the con artist is a legitimate and trustworthy resource.
Is it just a publicity stunt to impress the Welsh Assembly and to enhance officers CVs when they move on to pastures new, or is it a smoke and mirrors
confidence trick so that when the council announce cutbacks in the budget, they can say it was what Joe Public wanted?
IT is no exaggeration to say that wind farms will be judged by historians to be the greatest
confidence trick of the 21st Century.
This was a
confidence trick. In the retail sector, the unrestricted issuing of credit cards contributed to a personal debt mountain; the mis-selling of numerous financial products had to be sorted out at great cost by the Financial Ombudsman Service; thousands of endowment mortgages failed to provide sufficient funds to pay off home loan capital; managed pension funds are worth less than they were ten years ago; and mortgage offers of 125 per cent of property values must surely lead to negative equity and house repossessions now that the property market is faltering and unemployment has risen.