NYSentencing

§ 165.30  Fraudulent accosting.
  1.   A  person is guilty of fraudulent accosting when he accosts a person
in a public place with intent to defraud him of money or other property  by
means of a trick, swindle or confidence game.
  2.  A person who, either at the time he accosts another in a public place
or at some subsequent time or at some other place, makes statements to  him
or  engages  in  conduct  with  respect  to  him of a kind commonly made or
performed in the perpetration of  a  known  type  of  confidence  game,  is
presumed to intend to defraud such person of money or other property.
  Fraudulent accosting is a class A misdemeanor.
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