Deceptions and cons

• Lied to her mother and the LAPD that she could not identify Jason McCormack, because she was planning on killing him out of revenge. ("Collision")
• Had sex with Sawyer in order to get his gun. ("Two for the Road")

Charlie

• Attempts to con Lucy in order to get money for Heroin. ("Homecoming")
• Abetted Sawyer in a con job in order to get back at Locke. ("The Long Con")
• Allowed Desmond to think he was taking his place on the suicide mission before knocking him out with the oar. ("Greatest Hits")

Hurley

• Concealed food from the Swan food locker. ("One of Them")
• Lied to Sawyer, telling him the other survivors would vote to banish him if he wasn't nice to them. ("Left Behind")
• Acted as though Locke had left him behind in order to help Locke capture Sayid, Kate, and Miles. ("The Economist")

Jack

• Played along with Michael's betrayal, even after figuring it out, to help Michael retrieve Walt. ("Live Together, Die Alone")
• Gave Michael an unloaded weapon to maintain the appearance of trust. ("Live Together, Die Alone")
• Agreed to operate on Ben to save his life. Instead, he made Ben a hostage. ("I Do")  ("Not in Portland")

Kate

• Has several false identities.
• Pretended 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 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")
• Drugged Jack to make him sleep.
• Married Kevin under the false name Monica, then drugged him and left because of her shame at deceiving him. ("I Do")

Michael

• Pretended to have found the Others, when in fact he was captured by them, as part of an agreement to retrieve Walt. ("Two for the Road")  ("?")  ("Three Minutes")
• Murdered Ana Lucia and Libby, allowing Ben to escape, as part of that same agreement. ("Two for the Road")
• Shot himself, to place blame on Ben. ("Two for the Road")
• Led Jack, Kate, Sawyer, and Hurley into an ambush as part of the agreement. ("Live Together, Die Alone")

Sawyer

• Is a professional con man.
• The name "Sawyer" is a false identity; his real name is James Ford. Sawyer's namesake, Anthony Cooper (who went by "Tom Sawyer"), seduced his mother and took all their money. ("Confidence Man")
• Conned Kate into giving him a kiss, by pretending to know where Shannon's inhaler was (even under threat of torture). ("Confidence Man")
• Sawyer conned the Losties in order to get the guns. ("The Long Con")
• Used Cassidy in a long con, despite falling in love with her. ("The Long Con")
• Conned Munson into letting him help him hide his millions; instead, revealed the location of the money to the Warden Harris and Agent Freedman. ("Every Man for Himself")

Sayid

• Under pressure from Alyssa Cole and Robbie Hewitt to cooperate with their sting operation, agreed to fool Essam into thinking he was trustworthy enough to join the terrorist cell he was a member of. ("The Greater Good")
• Successfully prevented suicide bombing and recover explosives, but realization of his betrayal led Essam to commit suicide. ("The Greater Good")
• Helped Nadia to escape by killing Omar and injuring himself ("Solitary")

Shannon

• 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. ("Hearts and Minds")
• 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

• Pretended not to speak English, so that Jin wouldn't find out where she learned it. ("Pilot, Part 1" to "House of the Rising Sun")
• Tried to poison Jin in an attempt to keep him from leaving on the raft. ("Born to Run")
• Had an affair during her English lessons, and told Jin about neither. ("The Glass Ballerina")
• Lied to Jin about why Sayid was making the signal fire so large, but got caught. ("The Glass Ballerina")
• Lied to her father about breaking a statue causing a maid to be fired. ("The Glass Ballerina")
• Planned on leaving Jin at the airport and escaping to America.

Walt

• Snuck away from his father to take knife throwing lessons from Locke. ("Special")
• Set the first raft on fire in order to keep Michael from leaving the Island. ("...In Translation")

Nikki and Paulo

• Pretended to work for/care about Howard L. Zukerman, but then murdered (poisoned) him for $8 million dollars in diamonds. ("Exposé")
• Knew about the Drug smugglers' plane and The Pearl before anyone else, but didn't say anything. ("Exposé")
• "Corvette" learns her boss is really the mysterious underworld figure "The Cobra" on the Exposé TV show. ("Exposé")

• Conned James Ford's parents under the name Tom Sawyer.
• Used Locke's Mother to con Locke 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

• 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 while impersonating Kate.

Eddie Colburn

• Undercover police agent who pretended to be a hitchhiker drifter to befriend Locke.
• Secretly operating a sting to uncover Jan and Mike's marijuana-growing operation.

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 which version was a lie at this point.

Hibbs

• Professional Con-man.
• Worked the Tampa Job with Sawyer.
• Conned Sawyer into killing Frank Duckett by convincing him that Duckett was the real "Sawyer".

Kelvin

• 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

• 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
  • Malkin gave Claire the tickets to get on Flight 815.
• When he met Eko, he told him he was not psychic, but pretended to earn a living.
• Unknown motivations, and which version was a lie at this point.

Sam Austen

• Always knew that Kate was not his biological daughter, but let her believe otherwise.

• 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

• Convinced most of his people (besides Richard Alpert) into thinking that he was born on the Island.
• Posed as Henry Gale when captured by the Losties.
• Set up an elaborate plan where Michael would be used to lure Jack, Kate and Sawyer into an ambush.
  • As a part of the plan, Jack would be eventually convinced to treat Ben's medical condition.
• Sent spies in to infiltrate the Losties
  • 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) towards unknown ends.
  • Used Juliet's resemblance to Jack's ex-wife to manipulate Jack.
  • Pushed Kate and Sawyer into a situation where their emotions for each other would probably come out in the open.
• Tricked Sawyer into thinking that they had implanted a pacemaker in his body that would cause his heart to explode.
• Ben manipulated Locke into a belief that they shared the same goals.
• Told Jack that the others were going to kill Jin, Sayid, and Bernard if he didn't give up the satellite phone.
• Ben told Alexandra that her mother was dead.

Ethan

• Pretended to be a crash survivor to infiltrate the group on Ben's orders

Goodwin

• Pretended to be a tail-section survivor to report on them.

Juliet

• 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 which asked Jack to play along, but then kill Ben during the surgery.
• Attempted to manipulate Kate by handcuffing herself to her and putting her out in the jungle. This was done to manipulate Kate into thinking they are "in it together".
• Agreed to infiltrate the survivors for Ben and collect information on pregnant women among them.
• Double-crossed Ben and told Jack about the planned raid on the beach camp by the Others.

Mikhail

• Pretended to be the last surviving member of the DHARMA Initiative when he was actually an Other.
• Pretended to be walking away innocently after offering medical aid to Naomi when he had actually stolen the satellite phone.