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  The
tactic of deliberately hiding or obscuring vital information in
reports or presentations so that the one critical factor goes unnoticed,
and another person or party is duped into making a bad decision
or drawing the wrong conclusions.
This game sometimes occurs when producing legally binding contracts,
where one party hides critical, punitive and hugely costly clauses
in the small print, in the hope that the buyer can be duped into
signing it and therefore end up in a losing position. The old clichés
hold ...
More details and guidance on how to deal with
someone playing this Dirty Trick can be found in "21
Dirty Tricks at Work" by Colin Gautrey and Mike Phipps
and published by Capstone Wiley.
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