"confidence trick" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "kind": "topical",
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          "name": "Crime",
          "orig": "en:Crime",
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      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "con"
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          "word": "conman"
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        {
          "ref": "2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, Penguin, published 2010, page 558:",
          "text": "He was telling northern Europeans that some of the devotions which most deeply satisfied them […] were nothing but clerical confidence tricks.",
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        "A method of cheating somebody by winning their confidence and inducing them to hand over money (or other valuables)."
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        [
          "cheating",
          "cheating"
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  "word": "confidence trick"
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      "word": "con"
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    {
      "word": "conman"
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    {
      "word": "conwoman"
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        "A method of cheating somebody by winning their confidence and inducing them to hand over money (or other valuables)."
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          "cheating",
          "cheating"
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