kolobok--conman

Kolobok
Once upon a time an old man and woman lived in a village. One day the old man said to the old woman: "Grandmother, go scrape in the flour-tin and sweep in the corn bin, perhaps you will get enough flour to make a kolobok." The old woman went off and scraped round the flour-tin and swept the bottom of the corn-bin and she got, a couple of handfulls of flour. She mixed the floor with sour cream and shaped it into a kolobok - a kind of little round bun or cake. Then she fried it in butter and left it on the window-sill to cool. The kolobok lay there for a good while then suddenly it got up and rolled. It rolled from the sill to the bench, from the bench to the floor, across the floor to the door. It hopped over the threshold and into the hall. From the hall it rolled onto the porch, from the porch into the garden and from the garden out through the gate.
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Springtime, 1984Artist: Arnold Alaniz
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The method for a financial scam is extremely precise. Although script variations are infinite, the basic plot never changes. The best description is found in The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man by David W. Maurer (page 4):
In the big con games the steps are these:
Locating and investigating a well-to do mark
Gaining your confidence
Steering you to meet the insideman
Permitting the insideman to show you how you can make a large amount of money
Allowing you to make a substantial profit
Determining exactly how much you will invest
Sending you home for this amount of money
Playing you against a big store* and fleecing you
Getting you out of the way as quietly as possible
Forestalling action by the law
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Autumn LandscapeArtist: Jervis Mcentee