con artist

noun

variants or con man or US confidence man

: a person who tricks other people in order to get their money

The couple lost their savings to a con artist who told them he was an investment broker.

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Duhamel's first acting role was charming con artist Leo du Pres on the ABC daytime soap All My Children (1999–2002), which landed him a Daytime Emmy. —

Danny Horn, EW.com, 2 Feb. 2025 The truly worrisome facet is that scammers and con artists are going to use generative AI in this way. —

Lance Eliot, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025 The con artist posing as Pitt started asking for money, blaming his financial woes on his divorce from Angelina Jolie. —

Justin Gest, Newsweek, 20 Jan. 2025 Scams like the one the three Chinese nationals admitted to operating show how the hundreds of millions con artists bilk from Americans wind up getting used in other crime schemes. —

Michael Loria, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for con artist