Badger game

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The badger game is an extortion scheme or confidence trick in which the victims are tricked into compromising positions in order to make them vulnerable to blackmail. Its name is either derived from the practice of badger-baiting or, according to Webster, from the 19th century nickname for natives of Wisconsin, “The Badger State,” who once allegedly suffered from a disparaging reputation for cheating and trickery.

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