The phrase "cheated into" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to indicate that someone was tricked or deceived into doing something they would not have done on their own. For example: She was cheated into signing an unfair contract.
The man is a usurper, cheated into office and without any democratic legitimacy.
After a sharp decline in a firm's share price, Milberg Weiss would threaten a class-action suit on behalf of shareholders allegedly cheated into buying overpriced equity.
Had he been plainly asked to do the company that favour, he would have flatly refused; he had to be cheated into it.
The two countries are also divided over compensation for Korean women who historians said were forced or cheated into working as sex slaves for the Japanese military during World War II.
One man said he had been cheated into handing over $200 for a fake passport in Phnom Penh; a woman had been fined 500 baht (£9.22) a day for being in the country illegally.
But if exhibition prices get steeper and your own visits to galleries tend to revolve around these behemoths, you are being cheated into subsidising my free visits to permanent collections.
One advantage is that it incorporates the motivation to cheat into the solution to the problem of cheating.
If you put half the effort of cheating into actually writing your own work, you'll probably do just fine.
Watching them in action was a joy and the sense of being cheated extends into this now decapitated pleasure.
It may seem eccentric that my husband has translated the common fear of being cheated on into enthusiasm for the idea, but he's not alone.
Alex Rodriguez and Albert Pujols have had great careers, and Barry Bonds cheated his way into the record books.
