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Naturally, the best way to avoid these schemes is by being cool, calm, nice and slow.

 

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* The Trickster does a variant near the start of [[The DCU]]'s [[Crisis Crossover]] ''Underworld Unleashed'', with rueful narration about how a charter member of The [[Flash]]'s [[Rogues Gallery]] is now reduced to conning pizza boys.

* In the novel ''[[American Gods]]'', Mr. Wednesday casually pulls a variant of this, involving a credit card as well as cash, on a gas-station attendant. The exact details aren't mentioned, however: [[Neil Gaiman]] once stated in an interview that he'd deliberately tried to obfuscate the details of the cons used in the book, to prevent anybody from trying to replicate them in real life. (Didn't actually work, though. One of the bigger cons in the book was successfully replicated by a Canadian fan, who walked away with more than $6,000...)

 

* Harry the Hat pulls this on Coach on ''[[Cheers]]'', while talking to [[Know-Nothing Know-It-All|Cliff]].

* Done with a twist in ''[[CSI]]'' - {{spoiler|Hypnosis is used, and the teller ends up making change for a $20 -- using $50s}}.

Cook: [Laughs while running away] I sure got the best of that Injun! I have my beans and my flour back, and it only cost me [slams to a stop, outraged] TWO OF MY OWN PIES! }}

 

* [[Truth in Television]], obviously. It will happen at least once to every person who works with both money and the public.

** A friend of [[Penn & Teller]] [http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=10MJHKIflAU shows you how it's done].

 

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