Sickles was bilked out of much of his money by a portrait-painting princess with the unlikely name of Lenott Parlaghy.
From his jail cell, the arch-swindler Bernard Madoff might finally be doing a little something to help the thousands of investors whom he bilked out of billions of dollars.
Fasolt and Fafner Low-profile giants who build Wotan's castle, but then get bilked out of the agreed-upon payment.
PAGE A26 MAN ACCUSED OF FLEECING FLOCK The $500,000 that federal prosecutors say Bryant Rodriguez bilked out of members of the El Camino Church pales in comparison to the billions of dollars vanished in some other schemes.
This year, a class-action lawsuit was filed in California seeking hundreds of millions of dollars on behalf of thousands of Mexican farm workers who claim they were bilked out of part of their earnings.
But when she realized whom Ms. Bownes was trying to reach, she ruefully recalled her own dealings with the young woman and told the Metro-North official that she had just been bilked out of a pair of train tickets.
BOBSLEDDER'S PARENTS DUPED The parents of Steve Mesler, the bobsledding world champion from the United States, said they and some friends were bilked out of $7,332 by someone offering to rent them a home in Whistler, British Columbia, during bobsled competitions at the Vancouver Games.
The fate of the company's 1,900 workers also remains in question and some former company executives have suggested that the state is overpaying, bailing out a company burdened with debt, a troubled new sugar mill and a lawsuit from former employees who said they were bilked out of retirement money.
Within what feels like the first seven seconds of Thursday's episode, he has brushed himself off from the explosion sufficiently to take on a new client, a distraught father bilked out of $250,000 by some phony pharmaceutical people who sold him a fake cure for his young son's rare heart condition.
The most common way for people to be bilked out of their money is that they're tricked into giving away the bank account info.
One Russian user wasn't so lucky, however, and ended up getting bilked out of $2,000 — his family's life savings — which eventually led him to contemplate suicide.
