Usually means: Scam tricking victims with promises.
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  1. pigeon drop: Wiktionary
  2. pigeon drop: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  3. pigeon drop: Infoplease Dictionary
  4. pigeon drop: Dictionary.com
  5. Pigeon Drop, Pigeon drop: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. pigeon drop: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Definitions from Wiktionary (pigeon drop)

noun:  A confidence trick in which the mark or "pigeon" is persuaded to give up a sum of money in order to secure the rights to a larger sum of money or more valuable object.

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