| Character |
Deceptions/Cons |

Ana Lucia Cortez |
Charlie
|

Charlie Pace |
Hurley
|

Hugo "Hurley" Reyes |
Jack
|

Jack Shephard |
Kate
|

Katherine "Kate" Austen |
- Has several false identities.
- Pretended she doesn't know how to use a gun. ("Pilot, Part 2"); ("Whatever the Case May Be")
- First falsely claimed to be the owner of the Halliburton case, then lied to Sawyer that she doesn't want the Halliburton case. ("Whatever the Case May Be")
- Attempted to conceal the key of the Halliburton case from Jack when they recovered it from Edward Mars' body. ("Whatever the Case May Be")
- Deceived her partners in the bank robbery about the goal of the robbery, then turned on them. ("Whatever the Case May Be")
- Talked Sun into poisoning Jin in an attempt to get herself on the raft; additionally, deceived Sun into thinking she was nobly only trying to help her. ("Born to Run")
- Helped Cassidy Phillips escape a Jewelry con gone bad by saying her father ran a store and pretending to buy a "real" necklace. Later, she and Cassidy conceived a plan to evade the police so Kate could visit her mother. ("Left Behind")
- Married Kevin under the false name Monica, then drugged him and left because of her shame at deceiving him. ("I Do")
- Drugged Jack to make him sleep. ("The Greater Good")
- Pretended that she was being chased by the Others when she was, in fact, working with the Others to lure Keamy and his men into a trap. ("There's No Place Like Home, Parts 2 & 3")
- Lied to the public along with the other Oceanic Six about what really happened on the island and during the crash. ("There's No Place Like Home, Parts 2 & 3")
Michael
|

Michael Dawson |
Sawyer
|

James "Sawyer" Ford |
Sayid
|

Sayid Jarrah |
Shannon
|

Shannon Rutherford |
- Convinced Boone that her boyfriend Bryan was beating her so that Boone would pay off Bryan to leave her, and they could split the money. But her plan backfired when Bryan took the money and left. ("Hearts and Minds")
- Re-established her connection to Boone, her stepbrother, by sleeping with him. ("Hearts and Minds")
- Feigned interest in Charlie so that he'd catch a fish for her. ("Walkabout")
Sun
|

Sun-Hwa Kwon |
Walt
|

Walt Lloyd |
Nikki and Paulo
|

Paulo and Nikki |
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| Character |
Deceptions/Cons
Anthony Cooper
|

Anthony Cooper |
- Conned James Ford's parents under the name Tom Sawyer.
- Used Locke's mother to con him into giving away his kidney.
- Is a professional con man.
- Faked his own death to escape his creditors.
- Used Locke again in a money-transfer scam.
- Failed at conning Mrs. Talbot in a wedding con.
Cassidy
|

Cassidy Phillips |
- Fledgling con woman, trained by Sawyer as part of a long con.
- Began by convincing people at gas stations to buy fake jewelry.
- Conned the authorities into revealing themselves by impersonating Kate.
Eddie Colburn
|

Eddie Colburn |
- Undercover police agent who pretended to be a hitchhiker drifter to befriend Locke.
- Secretly operated a sting to uncover Jan and Mike's marijuana-growing operation.
Dr. Je-Guy Kim
|

Dr. Je-Guy Kim |
- Told Jin and Sun while they were together in his doctor's office that Sun was incurably infertile due to advanced endometriosis.
- Later accosts Sun when she is on the street alone to tell her that he had lied and Jin was the infertile one.
- Claims that he couldn't tell him, for fear that an employee of Mr. Paik would want retribution if he gave him such news.
- Unknown motivations, and unknown which version was a lie at this point.
Hibbs
|

Hibbs |
Kelvin
|

Kelvin Joe Inman |
- Led Sayid to believe he couldn't speak Arabic so that Sayid would torture Tariq.
- Got Desmond to live with him in the Swan for years and believe in the Sickness, when he himself did not.
- During this time, secretly fixed Desmond's boat (the Elizabeth), in the hopes of escaping the Island and leaving Desmond to push the button.
Richard Malkin
|

Richard Malkin |
- Originally read Claire's fortune as a psychic, and told her that her baby was in great danger if she did not raise it herself.
- Later gave her the option of meeting with a mysterious couple in L.A. who wanted to adopt the baby and give her money
- When he met Eko he told him he was not psychic, but pretended to earn a living.
- Unknown motivations, and unknown which version was a lie at this point.
Sam Austen
|

Sam Austen |
- Always knew that Kate was not his biological daughter, but let her believe otherwise.
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| Character |
Deceptions/Cons
The Others
|

The Others |
- Took great lengths to appear as primitives to the Losties.
- Tom's fake beard.
- Dirty clothes, later revealed to be costumes.
- Fishing village with a fake hatch door.
Ben
|

Benjamin Linus |
- Convinced most of his people (except for Richard Alpert) that he was born on the Island. ("The Man Behind the Curtain")
- Posed as Henry Gale when captured by the Losties. ("One of Them")
- Set up an elaborate plan that included using Michael to lure Jack, Kate and Sawyer into an ambush. ("Exposé")
- As a part of the plan, Jack would eventually be convinced to treat Ben's medical condition.
- Sent spies to infiltrate the Losties. ("A Tale of Two Cities")
- Ethan to report on the Mid-Section Survivors.
- Goodwin to report on the Tail-Section Survivors.
- Attempted to manipulate Jack, Kate and Sawyer (during captivity) toward unknown ends.
- Used Juliet's resemblance to Jack's ex-wife to manipulate him.
- Pushed Kate and Sawyer into a situation where their emotions for each other would likely come out in the open.
- Tricked Sawyer into believing they had implanted a pacemaker in his body that would cause his heart to explode. ("Every Man for Himself")
- Manipulated Locke into following through on his plan to blow up the submarine by making him think that he didn't want it to happen. ("The Man from Tallahassee")
- Told Jack that the others were going to kill Jin, Sayid, and Bernard if he didn't give up the satellite phone. ("Through the Looking Glass")
- Told Alexandra that her mother was dead. ("The Man from Tallahassee")
- Told Locke that he had no idea why Charles Widmore wanted the island, but later revealed that he did know. ("The Other Woman")
- Told Jack that he had not spoken to Locke, yet Ben was actually the one who killed Locke. ("Because You Left")
- Sarcastically told Jack that his mother taught him to read, even though she had died in childbirth. ("316")
- Originally claimed his reason for visiting the Monster had nothing to do with Alex's death. ("Dead Is Dead")
- Admitted to Locke that he had never met, seen, or even spoken to Jacob. ("The Incident, Parts 1 & 2")
Ethan
|

Ethan Rom |
- Pretended to be a crash survivor to infiltrate the group on Ben's orders.
Goodwin
|

Goodwin |
- Pretended to be a tail-section survivor to report on them.
Juliet
|

Juliet Burke |
- Took part in Ben's plan to "break" Jack, using her own resemblance to his ex-wife Sarah.
- Gave Jack a speech about the importance of saving Ben's life, while simultaneously playing him a video of herself holding cue cards asking Jack to play along but then kill Ben during the surgery. ("The Cost of Living")
- Attempted to manipulate Kate into thinking they were "in it together" by handcuffing herself to her and putting her out in the jungle. ("One of Us")
- Agreed to infiltrate the survivors for Ben and collect information on the pregnant women among them. ("One of Us")
- Double-crossed Ben and told Jack about the planned raid on the beach camp by the Others. ("Greatest Hits")
Mikhail
|

Mikhail Bakunin |
Jacob
|

Jacob |
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