1.0 link 48420 <![CDATA[Flim Flam Frank (a.k.a. The Luntz)]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-feldman/flim-flam-frank-aka-the-l_b_48420.html A "con," a "scam," a "grift," a boo-boo, a bunko, a flim flam. All these are synonyms for what street crime experts call the "Confidence Trick." I will add one more synonym to the list: The Luntz.

The Confidence Trick has many names: Three-Card-Monte, The Spanish Prisoner, The Protection Scheme, The Free Pet Scam, Pig-in-a-Poke, Lottery Fraud by Proxy, The Pigeon Drop, Psychic Surgery.

The list is long long, but the lure of the Luntz is always the...

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