This is Your FBI: The Confidence Game - British Farm Equipment, Ltd

This is your FBI. This is your FBI, an official broadcast from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, presented as a public service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. To your FBI you look for national security, and to the Equitable Society for Financial Security.

These two great institutions are dedicated to the protection of you, your home, and your country. Tonight, the story of a crime against society, the confidence game. There are many ways for a thief to steal. There are many forms of larceny.

They range from the simplest stick-up to the involvement of a big-time swindle. This present war period has created a fertile field for the Swindler. Increased salaries, increased employment set up a ready market for his get rich quick activities.

On May 22, 1934, Congress, by passing the National Stolen Property Act, put into the hands of the FBI an effective weapon against confidence men. In spite of this, however, Swindler still pursue their losing game.

drama is an old one and it's worked with little variation. Its first act might begin as this one does, and the office of a respectable businessman. He is greeting a visitor. Sit down, Mr. Perry.

Thank you, sir. Thank you. Were I warm enough for you? I should say so. Phew. You know, I thought they called us the Windy City. I haven't even felt a breeze since I've been here.

Why don't you take off your coat? Well, soon I don't mind if I do. Well, there. I feel better already. Oh, well, how long are you planning to be here in Chicago, Mr. Perry? Just long enough to complete my business with you.