Anyone who claims expertise who doesn't have it is a con man.

Leave it to a lawyer, of which I understand there are a million in this country, to use a legal monetizing definition of "con" as opposed to the general one.

But it's not really just a general one. "Coin of the realm," you see, isn't just coin of the realm. There are "non-material resources" just as there are "material resources." Ask any sociologist, psychologist, psychiatrist, or anthropologist (as opposed to the master of all realms, the lawyer).

For example, for those lawyers who haven't taken a few economics or sociology classes, getting laid is an act that is a possible end result of touting (see what I did there?) one's expertise that one doesn't really possess, ergo it's a non-material con. Let me repeat that. Touting one's faux expertise and benefitting from it, be the benefit material, as in coin of the realm or non-material, as in prestige, community access, or something as pedestrian as getting laid, is a con if you don't have the expertise and if you are presenting yourself as something you are not.

In KewlJ's case, his 15,000 posts and ghostly presence suggests he isn't what he claims to be. Even the act of promoting one's expertise falsely is a con.

I rest my (non-material) case.

And really, V, what do you actually know about kewlJ where you think he hasn't financially conned anyone? You don't know. You don't even have his name. So why would you swing a wiffle bat for an anonymous phantom? Methinks you just like to pick sides based on whatever values you think you have this week.

Which is, now that I think about it, exactly what lawyers do.