"he was conned" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means that someone tricked or deceived him. Example: John thought he was getting a great deal on a new car, but he was actually being conned by the salesman.
Tweet of the Week @jayleno – A NH man says he was conned by a carnival, losing his entire life savings at the ball toss game.
Mr Darduna told the BBC he was conned into selling the piece by a local man who pretending to work for Banksy.
The suspects include a French former convict with a restaurant in Casablanca called Key West and a wealthy Geneva real estate investor who insists that he was conned into hiding a paper sack of gems.
"We have no idea who sold him the fungi, but he was conned". Prolonged drought in many of the black truffle's prime growing regions in Europe and predictions about global warming have heightened fears about its future.
Instead, fate planted a tripwire when he was conned out of a large part of his fortune by a friend and business associate and was forced to extend his playing career with a peripatetic few years between the US, Spain and the Netherlands.
I've spoken to the referee I think he was conned, but we're disappointed that we allowed their lad to get in there in the first place.
"He was conning me on," he added.
Actually, officials say, he was conning the government, too.
Second answer, my preferred one, he was conning himself as well.
But all that is undermined by the fact that he was conning us.
Pop felt that the valuable life lesson he was transmitting was worth far more than these dollars, and whenever he was conning his boy a sort of high-priest expression came down over his bent nose, his ruddy face.
