Explain some of the other types of confidence games used by con artists
What will be an ideal response?
• They include the bank examiner scheme (con artists pose as FBI agents or bank officials and use victim's money as part of "sting" operation), pyramid scheme (con sustained by recruiting new members but collapses under weight of necessary numbers), travel scam (free vacations actually involve hundreds of dollars in service fees), home repair scam (quoted price for repairs either soars or repairs are never completed), contest con ("prizes" for visiting time-share resorts), and magazine subscription scam (service fees exceed cost of magazines by many times over).
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