Sentence examples for deceptive text from inspiring English sources

Jimmy Shah, a mobile security researcher at McAfee Labs, said the company had run into so-called smishing attacks, a variation on phishing, in which someone is sent a deceptive text message that appears to have come from a bank or a retailer.

Marketer admits sending millions of deceptive spam text messages.

While researchers concluded that people are more likely to be deceptive via text -- Sauder Professor Karl Aquino wrote in a press release, "Our results confirm that the more anonymous the technology allows a person to be in a communications exchange, the more likely they are to become morally lax," the study apparently measured only perceptions of deceit -- what the deceived thought and felt.

Edmundson's ideal teacher used a deceptive pre-text to isolate a young man from a group of his friends and then suborned them to lie to him.

Erin E. Stead, the illustrator, overlays her pencil sketches with gentle tones of pink, peach, blue and green, and bright red spots that belie the deceptive ordinariness of the text.

This beautifully produced book, with its highly informative illustrations and carefully selected coverage of highlights in the cell death field, comes in at less than 200 pages of paperback text, but is deceptive in its apparent simplicity.

Of 5,396 texts examined, 10.7 percent were deceptive.

The bigger the text, the more credible or deceptive it is.

"Text-based relationships are very deceptive," Mr. King said.

The spirit and plain text of this provision clearly offers a path to debt relief when a school relies on deceptive and predatory tactics to induce students to enroll and borrow student loans.

Some deceptive designs even include a call to action displayed on the colorful button they do want you to press — with text that says something like 'Okay, looks great!' — to further push a decision.