The Libyan Investment Authority, created in 2006 to look after the country's oil riches, accused the Wall Street bank of duping it into making investments that its "naive" staff didn't understand.
Yet while dozens of recruitment agencies are pulling out the stops to attract potential employers – including parading women in front of potential employers who can take them home on the spot – they are also being accused of selling women and duping them into a life of domestic servitude.
If Mr Bush and tort reformers succeed in duping legislators, the more pertinent question is who will come out on the bottom?
The book covers everything from the agency's origins 100 years ago as a shoestring outfit hunting German spies to the duping of the Nazis during the second world war, the scandals and successes of the intrigues against the Soviet Union and, latterly, the counter-terrorist campaigns first against the IRA and then against jihadist suicide-bombers.It is a striking experiment in openness.
They believed that a streetwise servant, looking for a better life in America, had schemed against her employer and had succeeded in duping gullible American do-gooders.That the main American protagonist in the saga, the New York prosecutor, Preet Bharara, is of Indian origin in some ways has made matters worse.
They end up playing the system not the game, by duping the ref into making wrong but favourable decisions.
But the United man feels players who dive are not just cheating the opposition, they are duping the paying public as well.
The chirpy presenter of Capital Radio's breakfast show, right, admits that for all these years he's been duping us by adopting a Bobby Charlton-style comb-over.
King also accused Whyte of "duping the fans".
"Vishing and courier fraud target some of the most vulnerable people in society by duping them into transferring money directly into criminals' accounts, or handing over bank cards and personal identification numbers to couriers – in some extreme cases people have also handed over cash or jewellery," says Rory Stoves of the FOS.
But crime gangs have become more wily in duping authorities.
