The Complete Guide for Immigrants and Americans Life in the USA is a complete guide to American life for immigrants and Americans. All rights reserved. A confidence artist may even be a person from your own ethnic group or country, who specializes in building trust based on your common national heritage. One sign of a confidence game is that the other person trusts you too easily, then wants you to come up with some money to prove your honesty. Hundreds of confidence games and swindles exist.
Sophisticated companies advertise goods by mail that are never delivered.
You might have someone come up to you on the street and try to sell you a watch or television which has supposedly been stolen. Cheap and worthless imitations of expensive goods are often sold on the streets. You cannot win this game. The spectators then get excited and lose their own money very quickly. Many confidence games exist.