Trik konfidensi atau trik kepercayaan adalah upaya untuk melakukan penipuan setelah mendapatkan kepercayaan korban terlebih dahulu. Trik konfidensi mengeksploitasi korban menggunakan sifat mudah percaya, kenaifan, belas kasih, kesombongan, kepercayaan diri, tidak bertanggung jawab, dan keserakahan. Para peneliti telah mendefinisikan trik konfidensi sebagai "ciri khas dari perilaku penipuan [...] yang bertujuan melakukan pertukaran sukarela tetapi sebenarnya tidak saling menguntungkan", karena mereka "menguntungkan penipu dengan mengorbankan korban mereka.
Bacaan lanjutan
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Pranala luar
Wikivoyage memiliki panduan wisata Common scams.
Wikimedia Commons memiliki media mengenai Confidence tricks.
- "Arrest of the Confidence Man". The Lost Museum, (GMU). Police Intelligence. New York Herald. July 8, 1849.
- Book of Swindles. ChinaFile.com. 2017-11-15. Confidence tricks in China.
- "Prepaid funeral scam". FBI.gov.
- "The Blonger Bros". blongerbros.com. Lou Blonger was the head of a large gang of confidence men running the Big Con in 1910s Denver.
- "To Catch a Con Man". Dateline NBC investigation. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2007-03-24.
