> Change raising, also known as a quick change or short change scam, is a common short con and involves an offer to change an amount of money with someone, while at the same time taking change or bills back and forth to confuse the person as to how much money is actually being changed. The most common form, “the Short Count”, has been featured prominently in several movies about grifting, notably The Grifters, Criminal, Nine Queens, and Paper Moon.Â
> For example, a con artist targeting a cashier apologetically uses a ten-dollar bill to pay for an item costing less than a dollar, claiming not to have any smaller bills; the change of over nine dollars will include either nine singles or a five and four singles. The con artist then claims to have found that he had a dollar bill, after all, and offers to change it and the nine dollars for the original ten. If the con artist can manipulate the clerk into handing over the ten-dollar bill first, the con artist can then give it back to the clerk in place of one of the singles the con artist was expected to give the clerk. The con artist then pretends to notice he has “mistakenly” given the clerk nineteen dollars instead of ten; producing another single, the con artist suggests he add this to the nineteen and let the clerk give him back an even twenty.
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and there are people that would call this flawless logic…
these people call themselves POLITICIANS btw.
Bob is wilding out.
thats basically how a lot of givernment grift works
How debt works between countries be like I swear
Oh that’s negative interest rates
The banking system in a nutshell.
[Reminds me of a classic con:](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scams#:~:text=When%20the%20clerk%20turns%20away%2C%20the%20con,make%20change%20for%20the%20larger%20bill%2C%20without)
> Change raising, also known as a quick change or short change scam, is a common short con and involves an offer to change an amount of money with someone, while at the same time taking change or bills back and forth to confuse the person as to how much money is actually being changed. The most common form, “the Short Count”, has been featured prominently in several movies about grifting, notably The Grifters, Criminal, Nine Queens, and Paper Moon.Â
> For example, a con artist targeting a cashier apologetically uses a ten-dollar bill to pay for an item costing less than a dollar, claiming not to have any smaller bills; the change of over nine dollars will include either nine singles or a five and four singles. The con artist then claims to have found that he had a dollar bill, after all, and offers to change it and the nine dollars for the original ten. If the con artist can manipulate the clerk into handing over the ten-dollar bill first, the con artist can then give it back to the clerk in place of one of the singles the con artist was expected to give the clerk. The con artist then pretends to notice he has “mistakenly” given the clerk nineteen dollars instead of ten; producing another single, the con artist suggests he add this to the nineteen and let the clerk give him back an even twenty.
But…the joke isn’t porn? I’m confused