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Someone who monetizes your trust faster than you can spell due diligence.
means A con artist who swindles people out of money through deception, scams, or petty hustles rather than honest work.
from American slang from the late 1800s/early 1900s carnival and hobo underworld, where 'grift' meant the dishonest trade worked by traveling con men, pickpockets, and rigged-game operators following circuits and fairs. The exact root of 'grift' itself is murky — possibly a twist on 'graft' (illicit gain) blended with underworld slang like 'drift,' reflecting these con men's rootless, town-to-town hustling life — but no one knows for certain; it simply surfaced fully formed in grifter's-cant glossaries of the era.
- core skill
- Confidence, not competence
- exit strategy
- Already planned before you met them
- tell
- Always has a bigger opportunity for you
- origin
- From grift, old carnival slang for petty swindling