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The Con Within a Con

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The Con Within a Con	comment	A con normally involves an element in which the Con Man gets the target to trust them and/or to focus on achieving their greedy ends such that it overrides their normal sense of precaution. This is a form of con where that hook is trying to entice them in on playing a con themselves. The process of the con gives the con artist many opportunities to feign caution or try and entice the mark into feeling they have to prove something to the con man. The Con Within a Con can be controlled by having the fake target be a member of the con artist's own crew (sometimes called a "fake mark"). The payoff normally comes when The Con Within a Con requires the target to provide some front money which the con artist then runs off with. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })
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The Con Within a Con / int_15c6ea11	comment	Wonder Woman (1942): Huntress uncovers a rather sinister nested con where a group of conmen convince thieves and other criminals they'll help them fake their deaths and get away to start a new life, and while they do help some of them fake their deaths once they have all the information they need to take a larger percentage of their target's loot they kill them and cremate them, which explains why the fake deaths are so successful at keeping their supposed temporary allies hidden from authorities.
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The Con Within a Con / int_2c96ae0e	comment	The Hustle episode "The Lesson".
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The Con Within a Con / int_67e77a1	comment	In The Art of the Steal, the entire scheme to steal the Gospel of St. James and sell off forgies to multiple buyers who think they are buying the original is actually a con to take down Nicky, steal his money and and get him arrested as payback for him betraying the Caper Crew during the Warsaw job. It relies on Nicky's Chronic Backstabbing Disorder in order to work.
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The Con Within a Con / int_68144464	comment	In House of Games, the female lead gets trapped and loses $80,000 in an elaborate scam involving a fake mark.
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The Con Within a Con / int_74ff22b1	comment	This occurs in Matchstick Men, where the "big hit" on Chuck, Angela's arrival, and Roy's visits with Dr. Klein are all part of a massive con by Frank against Roy.
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The Con Within a Con / int_7dbd95ef	comment	Circus contains multiple nested cons, to the point where it becomes hard to work out just who is conning who. As a tip, whoever thinks they are winning at a particular point, probably isn't.
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The Con Within a Con / int_8d817ccb	comment	In Lost: Sawyer is caught out by this woman when trying to run a scam (something similar to a Thai Gem Scam), eventually he befriends her and takes her on several short cons, using her as a shill. Then he comes up with a longer con which would go for a bigger target but would require a little show money. She then reveals that she has some money that she got from a divorce which they can use. Psych! Turns out that this was just a really long con where Sawyer had been told by her vengeful ex-husband about the money and was there to get it from her.
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The Con Within a Con / int_9eac916a	comment	In the movie The Sting, Paul Newman's character Gondorff plays a fake mark scam, when he is working as the obnoxious bookie "Shaw".
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The Con Within a Con / int_a45fd0d5	comment	Nine Queens and its American remake Criminal. In this case what we are actually following is not the overall con but The Con Within a Con itself and then at the end the real con is a Twist Ending.
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The Con Within a Con / int_d4dcb50d	comment	In Blonde Crazy, Bert thinks he's going to get big bucks with his counterfeit bill swindle with Dapper Dan, but what Dan is really doing is stealing the actual cash.
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The Con Within a Con / int_dd5c5eed	comment	In The Rockford Files episode "There's One in Every Port", Rockford is in the unenviable position of having to con a fellow conman, who is in turn running a con of his own against a third party. As a result, he has to come up with something the other guy hasn't seen before, which ends up being an odd three-layer con. He fakes like he's trying to steal his rival's mark, while allowing said pre-made fake mark to learn what he thinks is good blackmail material about the oil baron who Rockford is impersonating. Then he has some fake IRS agents rope the rival conman into a fake tax sting against his own mark, and allow him to hear said blackmail material when the mark attempts to use it against Rockford as the oil baron. Now the rival takes this information and attempts to use it against the real oil baron, and ends up buying a huge amount of stock at a steep discount (that way he gets money, but cannot release the blackmail material easily because he has a financial stake himself). However, the stock certificate ends up being a fake. The second oil baron was also a fake, and yet another fake mark.
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The Con Within a Con / int_f53fe2fa	comment	An episode of Mission: Impossible involves the team trying to get the mark (an unscrupulous African stockbroker) to "take over" an operation producing near-perfect counterfeit money.
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The Con Within a Con / int_fbf33963	comment	Inception: while Fischer is dreaming, the team convince him to enter and extract from Browning's dreams, while he's actually going into a further level of his own.
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