"I think she was a con artist, yes, " Blake said.

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The West family in Asheville, North Carolina is one of the latest victims in this all-too-familiar American story of a complete betrayal of business trust by a con artist.

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"Identity Thief" came in above industry expectations despite the storm and poor reviews for the comedy, which stars Bateman as a man chasing down a con artist (McCarthy) who has racked up thousands of dollars of charges in his name.

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Their perspectives helped shape the "Seven Pearls" suggestions: Set limits on how much you'll spend on clothes for a date, how to recognize a relationship "con artist" who doesn't pay his fair share and knowing that even the best-laid plans will be turned on their head by something unforeseen.

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Then move them to Florida where there is no interest what so ever for baseball and where tax payers will be taken for a ride until the con artist and his pupil sell the team and cash all their marbles once the new stadium is build.

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You can feel a bit of her peculiar personal magnetism in roles as varied as Morticia Addams and the agonized mother and con artist Huston played in "The Grifters, " a part she took on at the end of her famous 16-year romance with Jack Nicholson.

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If the Voynich manuscript is a fraud, then one plausible suspect is Edward Kelley, an Elizabethan con-artist.

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So, this con artist had two baited hooks in the water: He would sell you a fake or trade you for it.

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