Bunko, con, flim flam, gaffle, grift, scam, scheme, or swindle. It's all the same.
I haven't been across this man while traveling in South America, but had a similar experience years ago when I ran into a woman who told me a similar sob story in Santa Monica, California and on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.
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