In a wrestling ring, a tag team can make for some entertaining sport -- at least in some people's eyes -- but in the world of scams it has become a cunning way of conning victims.
Many scams involve an accomplice but a tag team mostly refers to con tricks in which the crooks pretend not to know each other. And in some instances, the term can even refer to one individual pretending to be two different people.
The aim is usually the same -- to generate credibility for the scam by seeming to offer independent confirmation that it's genuine.
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