Sentence examples for managed to scam from inspiring English sources

3) Conniving: An inmate can trade whatever he has been given by the authorities or whatever he has managed to scam from them.

They become refugees and flee the Great Fire of Smyrna on passports they have managed to scam from the French consulate, heading to America and a new fate where "whatever he seemed to be would become what he was".

Unofficially, D'Souza's total winnings from her shaman game are estimated at around £5 million, scraping at the reigning fraud champion: a Goldman Sachs secretary, who a decade ago set the criminal justice world alight by managing to scam £5.4 million from her employers.

He managed to keep the scam under wraps for 13 years by faking receipts and statements.

The seven men behind the widespread scam reportedly managed to score around $14 million in ill-gotten funds before they were arrested in late 2011.

Many scam developers managed to get past App Store monitors by using different screenshots when they first submitted their apps for approval and then later changing the store description.

And aside from noting that Mr. Gerhartsreiter might have picked up some tips from the film noir movies he loved to watch, Mr. Seal also fails to illuminate the means by which he managed to pull off his elaborate scams.

Part of the reason for this shocking judicial failure is the way the industry, through lobbying and political contributions, managed to change the laws and decriminalize their scams.

There is a perfectly illogical explanation for it; polio drops are meant to make us impotent and these programmes are run by the same people who managed to locate Osama bin Laden by running another scam vaccination campaign.

By Christmas that year, he and Crouch had hatched a new scam, this time "index trading", which managed to rake in three times as much over the next 12 months.

It is very likely that absent the global credit crunch, Madoff would have been able to maintain his scam for many years more, since he had previously managed to keep his investors very happy.