165.30 - Fraudulent accosting.

§ 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.