Far from being a fiddle, it might more aptly be described as a confidence trick.
It might be a clever or justifiable confidence trick, but it is a confidence trick all the same.
I suspect that many thousands of people now understand all too well that transitional relief was a confidence trick.
At best, it was gross naivety and at worst it was a great confidence trick.
It is on them, with their confidence trick, that the main burden of the charge lies.
This was another part of the confidence trick.
The commission was another part of the confidence trick.
If a person accepts the article as a gift, in some cases it may lead to some confidence trick.