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

Your uncle was a grifter who spent his mother’s money.

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

Smyth’s case has similarities to Anna Sorokin, a grifter convicted in New York of paying for a lavish lifestyle by impersonating a wealthy German heiress.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 16, 2024

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

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman

"Whenever there is a crisis -- especially in the health space -- the grifters are gonna come out," said Timothy Caulfield, a misinformation expert and professor at the University of Alberta.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

The rush of pseudoscientists, grifters, wellness influencers, and celebrity advocates into the space only made the chronic Lyme debate more fraught.

From Slate ● Dec. 19, 2025

Costs for Minnesota’s Medicaid housing program, initially estimated at $2.6 million a year, ballooned to $104 million last year as it became a fund for grifters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025

Derek Beres, co-host of the Conspirituality Podcast which investigates wellness grifters, told Salon he recalls buying and consuming raw milk in 2008 in Brooklyn, New York.

From Salon ● Dec. 23, 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