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An elderly widower falls prey to a targeted banking scam by a pair of English con artists.
When a programmer creates a new type of empathy-based cryptocurrency that disrupts the workings of a charity run by her old roomate, the two are drawn into conflict over rationality, morality and justice.
A man tricks a salesman into chasing buried treasure in order to purchase a new machine he wants.
When a former air force pilot’s friend goes missing for 32 days, he recalls a dangerous but tempting deal he was offered months ago and assumes the worst for his more gullible and perhaps unlucky friend.
A fifty-year-old tech billionaire’s preference for solitude is challenged when someone hacks his AI-controlled home and traps him for a ransom of 150 million dollars.
A man working multiple jobs to make ends meet comes into a hefty inheritance by way of stocks, but refuses to touch the money in order to keep up a turbulent relationship with his artistic passions.
After a husband and wife team up to use quantum physics to cheat a casino out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, they make a shady deal with the casino's owner to avoid jail time.
A humble cambist's life is upended when a local noble decides to use him for party tricks.
In order to pay off his debts to a Chinese triad, a gambling addict is forced to work as a deliveryman for the triad leader.
A wealthy woman's ploy to flaunt her wealth is foiled by her old friend's seeming indifference to opulence - until they part, and the friend asks for money. The afternoon is ruined when the woman realizes that her obsession with money has ruined her outlook on life.