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Originally Posted by 711
Nowhere does Pinky accuse her mentor as being a scammer, only a poor mentor. People throw around the term "scammer" much too loosely in my opinion.
No such accusation is made in this article, so I fail to see why you are mentioning the rule.
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Well its DAMN close to be such an accusation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scam_%28disambiguation%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidence_trick
Quote: Scam an Confidence trick
Well to start off, Pinky joined the mentor as a deciple since she was Confident he would take care of her, while the true reason he took her on, was to keep her locked as desciple and won't release her before 100% - when he gets the skill / item. What ever if he scam MindArk getting the skill and item, or use Pinky's avatar as an tool to get them and therefore lure her into being his desciple is still about gaining confidence.
False Reward tricks:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confide..._reward_tricks
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The glim-dropper requires several accomplices, one of whom must be a one-eyed man. One grifter goes into a store and makes believe he has lost his glass eye. Everyone looks around, but the eye can’t be found. He declares that he will pay a thousand-dollar reward for the return of his eye, leaving contact information. The next day, an accomplice enters the store and pretends to find the eye. The storekeeper (the intended griftee), thinking of the reward, offers to take it and return it to its owner. The finder insists he will return it himself, and demands the owner’s address. Thinking he will lose all chance of the reward, the storekeeper offers a hundred dollars for the eye. The finder bargains him up to $250, and departs. The one-eyed man, of course, can not be found and does not return. (Described in A Cool Million, or, The Dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin (1934) by Nathanael West). Variants of this con have been used in movies such as The Traveller (1997) and Shade (2003).
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