Sentence examples for fallen for a con from inspiring English sources

Xavier Thouvenin, a lawyer for one of the accused men, said the latest revelations suggested that Renault had fallen for a con artist who played on the company's fears.

Claude Martingale, a Frenchman working at a Dublin investment bank in the wake of the financial crisis, is this novel's titular "Void" and "Mark": his life being empty, he falls for a con by a writer (winkingly named Paul) with designs on the bank's capital.

Despite this, most people think they are too smart to fall for a con and believe that they could easily identify any attempt to deceive or defraud.

But as Thomas Franks argued 15 years ago in his book The Conquest of Cool, counter-culture types who consider themselves cool for protesting the established order are falling for a con job perpetrated by that very establishment for the express purpose of getting them hooked on "hip consumerism".

I still ask myself how I, a magician with years of experience fooling people, almost fell for such a con.

"We're so desperate to make it in the globalized world that we'll fall for any con job.

Fall for a con artist and you could lose your entire life savings.

And as Conner falls for a generic hottie (Kathy Uyen) — encouraged by pointless bursts of slow motion — and bonds with a cute kid, the film morphs into a facile face-off between family joy and financial gain.

Salty O'Rourke (1945) returned Walsh to safer ground with a pleasant yarn about a racetrack con man (Alan Ladd) falling for a schoolteacher (Gail Russell).

He falls for a younger woman (Bennett) whose true romantic interest lies with a con man (Dan Duryea).

"If you fall for a scheme to cheat the I.R.S., you may lose your money to a con artist," she said.