O.K., your friend refused only the first of these and rightly so — he need not abet your small scam, although his fastidiousness does feel a little less than friendly.
Advertising seems like a small scam.
However, the U.S. Department of State has issued a warning about several common cons — such as the "I'm out of small bills" scam, typically perpetrated when the delivery guy arrives.
Mr. Pritchert turned to gambling and small-time scams, the police say, and ended up in Las Vegas, where he first found easy money by holding up banks.
Formerly small-time scams such as people-smuggling and identity theft are now big business.Those who toil against organised crime say that the old firms have not so much disappeared as embraced new business models.
A small-time scam artist capable of posing as a Bible salesman to cheat widows, an author of asinine schemes, he nonetheless had an astounding ability to survive.
For a little over an hour "The High Life" is a familiar story of a small-time scam artist who seeks redemption in the form of an innocent young woman newly arrived in the big city, in this case Guangzhou.
Although he says grimly, "I do not know what name you could give to the things I have done," he's really just a small-time scam artist, doing what he can to survive on the streets.
What starts out as a small-time scam — pouring boiled tap water into mineral-water bottles recovered from restaurants — gradually evolves into a thriving big-time business, enabling "you" to ascend into the firmament of the wealthy with a big house, a driver and lots of security to protect him from the envious rabble.
In a campaign to stop what many people here see as an eroding of the French Quarter's quality of life, the police have chased off many of the Quarter's fabled tap-dancing children, cracked down on unlicensed fortune tellers, jailed small-time scam artists who prey on tourists and restricted the places where street musicians may perform.
