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The Con of Arnold and Slack
Arnold and Slack pulled off their stupendous con, not by using a fake engineer or bribing Tiffany. The prospectors had simply observed the law of appearing more stupid than the mark. It is critical never inadvertently to insult or impune a person's brainpower. If you can make this iron rule work for you, it opens up all sorts of avenues of deception. Subliminally reassure people that they are more intelligent than you are,. Even that you are a bit of a moron, and you can run rings around them.