→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundO→’s Basement https://youtu.be/tp61Yrj5lTA?list=PLR0XuDegDqP3XRa-w_G0dy_aMMXj0Uq-k In this video: With these 13 words politely expressed, as often as not William Thompson would acquire another watch. Of course, Thompson wasn’t even close to the first to run such a daringly simple scheme, but his bold method of gaining his mark’s trust led a writer in the June 8, 1849 edition of the New York Herald to pen a piece “Arrest of the Confidence Man,” giving us the first known documented instance of the term “confidence man.” Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/09/william-thompson-original-conman/ Sources: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/04/22/the-admiral-and-the-con-man http://lostmuseum.cuny.edu/archive/arrest-of-the-confidence-man-newyork-herald http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/11/us/bernard-madoff-fast-facts/ http://etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=confidence+man&searchmode=none https://books.google.com/books?id=IZvFpT-FBxUC&pg=PT50&lpg=PT50&dq=william+thompson+1848+confidence&source=bl&ots=mlXefl9Ej8&sig=2oYQpma62syzRpV6HIk5uuxfZoI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDYQ6AEwBGoVChMIhPODqdjTxwIVi4CSCh36fAC9#v=onepage&q=william%20thompson%201848%20confidence&f=false http://money.cnn.com/2013/12/10/news/companies/bernard-madoff-ponzi/ http://www.bartleby.com/81/9169.html http://lostmuseum.cuny.edu/archive/arrest-of-the-confidence-man-newyork-herald https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Thompson_(confidence_man) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidence_trick http://www.thenation.com/article/united-we-scam/ http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=con&allowed_in_frame=0 http://www.writerightnow.co.uk/language-cons-etymology/ http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Confidence_game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kenney_%28dramatist%29