The best con artists there are have an aura of trust and respectability to the point where you willingly hand them your money.
They belong to (or run) your church, your union, your lodge and they follow the sports you like and always buy the next round.
“No one ever suspected such a kind, friendly person…” is the life goal of the best ones.
The truly smart ones stop at some point and quietly vanish or never take so much that their lifestyle draws attention. Greed trips most up eventually.
I seem to recall there was a counterfeiter once who only made ones and fives because no one ever looks at those and he just did enough to be comfortable.
Over that same period, because she was a nun, she had her essential bills paid, and earned zero disposable income. The difference between what she was paid, and what she might have earned in the public sector doing a job with a similar amount of responsibility is probably more than 800 grand.
Had she been paid as if she was a priest, (doing the lords work, but without the burden of poverty), it would be a closer call.
