grifter

After meeting Skalnik, Ms. Colloff thought the grifter would acknowledge his duplicity, before she came to believe that he simply saw her as his latest mark.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

He was a grifter who spent your grandmother’s money, tried to spend your inheritance and his wife is continuing that not-so-grand tradition.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2025

As a lifelong grifter, he can't help but keep returning to the site of a successful shakedown, and will drain a victim dry, as long as they keep complying.

From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2025

The judge’s ruling that Smyth should be extradited could help bring about the end of a bizarre saga in which victims have painted Smyth as a master of disguise and a veteran traveling grifter.

From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2024

Low Key, who was a grifter from Minnesota, smiled his scarred smile.

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman

The military swarms in to build a metal wall around the titanic alien, and Blunt’s cozy community of 700 swells to more than 100,000: scientists, journalists, tourists, opportunists and the inevitable grifters, criminals and weirdos.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

Recently, that has been our community colleges, where millions in federal student aid has been lost to grifters who use bots to sign up for classes, receive government money to help with school, then disappear.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2026

So it’s really no wonder that Altman, desperate for some promise of revenue, may be looking at the same source that is making crypto grifters, pick-up artists and gambling apps so profitable: Lonely, bored men.

From Salon ● Nov. 17, 2025

Lo-Letha Hall was a victim of the same con, summoned by the grifters to Brock’s house to retrieve a purported package for delivery.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2024

Chaos had followed the fall of the South, just as war-ravaged societies always attract thieves and grifters.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson