Criminal (2004 film)
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| - | Change raising, also known as a '''quick-change artist''', 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 ''[[Nueve Reinas]]'', ''[[The Grifters (film)|The Grifters]]'', ''[[Criminal (2004 film)|Criminal]]'', and ''[[Paper Moon (film)|Paper Moon]]''. For example, a con artist shopping at a [[Filling station|gas station]] pays for a cheap item (under a dollar) and gives the clerk a ten dollar bill. The con gets back nine ones and the change then tells the clerk he has a one and will exchange ten ones for a ten. Here's the con: get the clerk to hand over the $10 BEFORE handing over the ones. Then the con hands over nine ones and the $10. The clerk will assume a mistake and offer to swap the ten for a one. Then the con will probably just say: "Here's another one, give me a $20 and we're even." Notice that the con just swapped $10 for $20. The $10 was the ''store's money'', not the con's. To avoid this con, keep each transaction separate and never ever permit the customer to handle the original ten before handing over the ten ones. Another variation is to flash a $20 bill to the clerk, then ask for something behind the counter. When the clerk turns away, the con artist can swap the bill he is holding to a lesser bill. The clerk might then make change for the larger bill, without noticing it has been swapped. The technique works better when bills are the same colour at a glance like, for instance, [[Federal Reserve Note|U.S. dollar bills]].{{fact|date=August 2012}} | + | '''''Criminal''''' is a 2004 American film based upon the [[Cinema of Argentina|Argentine]] film ''[[Nine Queens]]''. Directed by [[Gregory Jacobs]], it stars [[John C. Reilly]], [[Diego Luna]], [[Maggie Gyllenhaal]], and [[Maeve Quinlan]] and is a production of [[Section Eight Productions|Section Eight]], the production company of [[Steven Soderbergh]] and [[George Clooney]]. |
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| - | A similar technique exists when a con comes to a gas station with a young clerk, buying something cheap, showing him an uncommonly huge bill while not giving it and telling the clerk to prepare the change. While he's busy counting the change, the con would ask many questions in order to disturb the young clerk. When change is counted and ready the con is acting as if he had given the huge bill. If the clerk does not remember having received the bill, the con will say he gave him the money. If the clerk is weak or disturbed enough, he could let the con go away with the change.{{fact|date=August 2012}} | + | |
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Criminal is a 2004 American film based upon the Argentine film Nine Queens. Directed by Gregory Jacobs, it stars John C. Reilly, Diego Luna, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Maeve Quinlan and is a production of Section Eight, the production company of Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney.
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