Lokhotron = Scam?

[Paul B. Gallagher]

Tatyana Buzina wrote:

> The idea of referring to crooks as "lokhi" is rather new to me.
> Neither I, nor any of my Russian friends/colleagues have ever heard
> about car salesmen being called "lokhi." "Lokh" can only be a victim
> of a scam, not a perpetrator.

FWIW, Steve Marder's /Supplementary R-E Dictionary/ (1992) defines лох 
as a "customer of a prostitute" -- what I would call a "john."

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