Difference between Con Game and Flimflam

CON GAME vs FLIMFLAM: NOUN

A swindle in which the mark, or victim, is defrauded after his or her trust has been won.
Same as confidence game.
A confidence game.
A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

Deception
Nonsense
A freak; a trick; a lie.
A freak; a trick; an imposition or deception.
A deception; a swindle.
Nonsense; humbug.
A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

Swindle, Scam, Con artist, Flimflammer, Confidence trick, Confidence game, Bunco game, Bunko game, Sting, Gyp, Hustle, Bunko, Bunco, Flimflam, Con

Chicanery, Skin, Hoax, Scam, Swindle, Confidence game, Con game, Bunko game, Bunco game, Sting, Hustle, Gyp, Bunko, Bunco, Con

Fraudster, Grift, Fraudful, Supercherie, Swindlery, Conman, Con man, Swindle, Scam, Con artist, Flimflammer, Confidence trick, Confidence game, Sting, Con

Con artist, Subterfuge, Grift, Fraudulence, Deceit, Mendacity, Charlatan, Deception, Skin, Hoax, Scam, Swindle, Confidence game, Sting, Con

Yes, this was a con game with the people that was there and knew how to bend the rules and lie to do it.
The movie make the case that it was a con game almost from the start, much to the tune of a Mamet script.
Steam is that age old Con game of making someone think they need something when they dont then making them pay for it.
Racca added that, as Parillo worked his almost gymnastic con game, he often left Moon alone, sometimes for as much as an hour.
Two elderly men are staring down the loss of their life savings in what prosecutors say was an epic con game.
Bait and switch is a cute term that refers to a nasty con game.
The Almighty is made the rhetorical shill in a socioeconomic con game.
There was no upsell or con game at all and I truly appreciate the job they did.
Any resistance to her never ending con game and I could easily be a goner.
Most educated folk are prone to honesty, and not in the con game.

The state enforces its laws for the benefit of all citizens, not just the victims of a given flimflam.
To be honest, I was surprised to discover an old counterculture hero was such a combination of earnestness and flimflam opportunism.
Or fanciful, or fantastical, or any other flimflam.
Con and Flimflam sentences, related words, idioms and quotations resource.
He covers everything from fart to flibbertigibbit, while always keeping careful watch for flimflam.
Madison is too serious a political thinker to be accused of flimflam.
Kit gasped again, and therefore cannot offer them flimflam.