| What happened is some very smart people got conned by the little office conman, and that's what this kid turns out to be. |
| The artistry of the conman is given an enticing makeover by Sir Ridley Scott in Matchstick Men, an ingenious little crime caper which functions on many levels. |
| A pensioner today told how she defied a conman who tried to trick her out of thousands of pounds. |
| A conman who poses as a policeman has been handing out fake speeding fines to unsuspecting motorists. |
| A zombified society, passively allowing itself to be hypnotised by every cunning conman with a used monster to sell. |
| The author is simply too much of a buffoon, too transparent a trickster, too irresistible a conman, to be dislikeable. |
