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SECTION 165.30
Fraudulent accosting
Penal (PEN) CHAPTER 40, PART 3, TITLE J, ARTICLE 165
§ 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.