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For your consideration (and b/c after a night with Goose and Lex Luthor I’m so blasted I can’t manage anything else); 

From Victor Lustig, the legendary con man who sold the Eiffel Tower twice, 

TEN COMMANDMENTS OF A CON MAN 

• 1) be a patient listener (it is this, not fast talk, that gets you your scores)
• 2) never look bored
• 3) wait for the other person to reveal political views, and then agree
• 4) wait for the other person to reveal religious views, and then agree
• 5) don’t talk sex (unless other person starts the talk)
• 6) never discuss illness
• 7) never pry (they’ll tell you everything eventually)
• never boast (let your importance be quietly obvious)
• 9) never be untidy
• 10) never be drunk