Sentence examples for a scam on from inspiring English sources

It is good comedy, as, for example, when E. F. works a scam on one Coble, to whom he tells lies about some cattle he owns and wants to sell cheaply in order to induce Coble to drive him the 400 miles from Arkansas to Tennessee.

It's not actually much cheaper in duty free anyway – it's a bit of a scam on travellers.

They won the war and got the girl and maybe even ran a scam on the side.

"This was a scam on a huge national scale detected by specialist financial investigators who have stopped the targeting of even more victims.

If he hadn't been born with a very large silver spoon in his mouth, he would probably be running a scam on a street corner.

In letters to the Department of Buildings, he has complained that the logic used by the owners of the property to gain approval for the driveway amounts to "a scam on the zoning resolution".

"It was a scam to get one over on the Russians" is another argument I've heard.

And a scam that goes on long enough, and works more or less to everyone's benefit, is simply called a culture.

They drink, and do a glorious scam on a douchebag who's been talking too loudly about stocks into his bluetooth earpiece.

"If there was a scam going on, we don't know how that one works," John Simley, a spokesman for Home Depot in Atlanta, told the gentleman.

No doubt in my mind that this is a scam (based on my experience with the seller, and supported by other internet reports on this company), so in my opinion the customer should beware.