Sentence examples for a massive scam from inspiring English sources

A "Recadi Chinaman" entered Venezuelan vocabulary to describe a scapegoat, a reference to the only person ever convicted in connection with what became a massive scam.

Industrial production fell by 3.7% in the 12 months to May.Britain's trade figures were revised to take account of a massive scam to avoid VAT.

Mr Githongo almost immediately spotted a massive scam, to be known after a murky company called Anglo-Leasing, that creamed off some $750m mainly by overbilling the state with ministerial connivance in some 18 projects.

But it did uncover a massive scam, with hundreds of officials and politicians in the state of Karnataka in the pockets of an illegal mining mafia that, over five years, had made profits of $2 billion or more shipping illegal iron ore to China.Such scandals have rocked Asia's third-largest economy in the past decade.

J.P. Morgan Chase and other leading banks are seeking $1.7 billion in damages from Mr. Winnick and other Global Crossing executives, contending that the group engaged in a "massive scam" to "artificially inflate" the company's performance to secure desperately needed loans.

I've seen a few of these sorts of things over the past year – one company hid everything inside a nice leather band and didn't include a screen – and this one has just enough going for it that it's probably not a massive scam.

This data could be used for a massive marketing scam.

Mr. Singh also faces pressure because of his law minister, Ashwani Kumar, who is embroiled in a controversy where he appears to be distancing Mr. Singh from a massive coal scam.

He abstained), on PFI – a massive, shameless scam perpetrated by financial institutions already as rich as Croesus, aided and abetted by government, that has brought the NHS to its knees – Corbyn and McDonnell called it right.

Interpol named him as 31-year-old Admir Suljic and said he was an associate of Dan Tan, a Singaporean national who is believed to be behind a massive betting scam that has fixed the results of hundreds of matches across Europe and beyond.

Congratulations -- you didn't fall for a massive tax scam that defrauded millions of innocent taxpayers.