Parting Fools and Their Money (A Con Artist Quest)

Yeah, you rip people off for a living; be it via forging precious artwork, staging investment scams, or peddling overpriced 'alternative medicine' to the gullible. No matter how you slice it, your income is derived from deceiving and taking advantage of others. There's only one thing about this line of work that you can point to that lets you sleep at night, and that's your choice of marks. Namely, you only target the rich.

Why is it that you're so selective with your targets, anyway?

[] Mercenary: Fact of the matter is, you're in it for the money, and rich people have more money. That's kind of the point of being rich.
(Pros: You get more resources from your takes to prepare for each job)
(Cons: Harder time attracting partners, and bigger cuts for each partner)

[] Ideology: The rich are a useless parasite on society who funnel undue wealth to themselves. You consider it fair to forcibly spread that wealth around a bit.
(Pros: High grassroots support; the poor are willing to provide a lot of aid for you operations and hiding your identity)
(Cons: You keep a lower percentage of each take for your own use; gotta spread that wealth around)

[] Remorse: Yeah, you used to scam the poor. Then you looked at all the broken families and ruined lives you left in your wake, and just couldn't take it anymore. That said, you don't have any useful skills aside from scamming people, so you moved to targeting people who'd be a bit more able to tank some financial hits.
(Pros: You start with more experience; you've been scamming people for a while before hitting the big leagues.)
(Cons: You start with more heat, courtesy of your prior activities.)

Ah, yes, that makes sense. That's a perfectly valid reason to be so selective with your marks.

...Wait, who are you anyway?

Select Gender
[] Male
[] Female
[] Write-In

Select Name
[] Write-In

Initiating Vote Count

NOTE: This quest will make use of blended votes; a majority is required for an option to win, but if the plurality option is a minority, the other options will be blended together if possible. Ties will also result in blending, if possible. Ties that cannot be blended will get a tiebreaker vote from yours truly.

Formatting...

Motive
-Mercenary: xxxx
-Ideology: xx
-Remorse: xxx

Gender
-Agender (write-in): xxxxx
-Gender: Maybe: x
-Female: xxx

Name
-Riley "Twitchy" Rietveld: xxx
-Felicia Greene: xxx
-William "Coiner" Abignale: x
-Eike "Sticky" Schnurrbart: x

Winning Options

Motive: Blend of Ideology + Remorse

Gender: Agender (assigned female at birth)

Name: Felicia Greene

Yeah, you're Felicia Greene, non-binary con artist extraordinaire. You're also going through something of a midlife crisis, looking back at the thousands of lives you've wrecked. For a little while, you tried going legit as an advertising representative, but that was a bit too close to what you'd already been doing, goading people into buying something they really didn't need.

Still, you've got few marketable skills aside from your ability to wrap people around your finger and part them from their money, leaving you in a bit of a rut. Then you realized just how easily duped a lot of rich people could be. So, back to the con you went, but this time with a focus: you would target the rich exclusively from here on out. Not only could they tank the financial hits much more easily than most marks, but the ample cash you could snag off them could easily be turned towards helping the poor. Maybe, if you redistributed enough wealth, you could finally fix all the damage you caused.

Anyway, you've developed more than a few useful skills for scamming people over the years. What parts of ripping people off are you particularly good at? (approval voting, top five will be selected)

Skills

[] Forgery: Be it whipping up duplicates of famous paintings, putting people's signatures in places where they really don't belong, or making a random hunk of junk look like a valuable antique, you are particularly skilled at making fake things look real.

[] Smooth Talk: Sometimes, you just need to talk to someone face-to-face in order to get them to do what you want. As such, you have gotten rather frighteningly competent at manipulating people face-to-face.

[] BUY NOW!: The media side of running a con involves making whatever enterprise you claim to be representing seem legit. That includes making websites, putting ads in newspapers, and deflecting suspicion just long enough to get your hands on the money.

[] Creative Accounting: Certain types of scams (such as ponzi schemes, for example) require some rather interesting financial manipulations in order to keep raking in the money. Such skills are also useful for 'cooking the books' in order to hold onto what you get and anonymize payments.

[] Multilingualism: Why restrict your operations to the USA? You've put in the effort to achieve fluency in the top ten world languages, greatly expanding the places where you can scam people.

[] New Face, New Clothes, New Mannerisms: Sometimes when the fuzz is closing in, you just need to disappear. In those cases, it is extremely useful to be able to seem like a completely different person from your previous identity.

[] When To Fold: A lot of scammers get caught because they keep trying to wring more money out of their marks even when the house of cards is already collapsing and it's time to disappear. Yeah, no, you've honed your awareness of when it's time to grab the money and GTFO to a razor sharp edge.

In addition to your amazing skills as an experienced con artist, you've also got a bit of an edge, something putting you a bit ahead of the rest of the crowd. What little thing is it that you've got putting you ahead of the rest? (Choose ONLY one)

Edge

[] Favored by Coyote: In your youth, you met Coyote, the trickster deity of Native American legend. Somehow, you convinced Coyote that you'd be more fun to watch if Coyote gave you a little bit of his power to play with. As such, you can muster the occasional bit of supernatural trickery if you need to. Casting illusions, finding shortcuts that don't exist, bodging together the occasional short-lived magical artifact, and making fair dice roll as if they were loaded are all things you can do.

[] Psychic Interludes: You are really good at getting inside people's heads, to a degree that quite bluntly defies logical explanation. When you're talking to someone you often get an additional feed of information about their mental state that couldn't possibly be conveyed from their words. Even freakier, if you focus you can see things from another's perspective from any range. As in, you see through their eyes, hear through their ears, and get a direct feed to what they're thinking while you're listening in.

[] Hypnotic Gaze: You suspect that there might be some faerie blood in your ancestry somewhere; with a bit of focus, you're able to get people into a ludicrously suggestive state, able to convince them to do things that even a master of normal manipulative shenanigans couldn't pull off. Coupled with actually being good at talking to people, there's very little you couldn't get someone to do.