Sentence examples for minor scams from inspiring English sources
Sunday's opening installment, "Gary's Blues," introduces a character whose soft, puppy-dog look makes viewers wonder how he survives his treacherous world, where daily events range from minor scams to gunplay.
The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith Tom Ripley, the ultimate chameleon, is a man on the run; not simply from the repercussions of a minor postal scam in New York, but also the spectre of his own humdrum existence.
Clifford Irving — a true figure, still alive today — was an author of minor repute who in 1971 conceived a scam that, in its formal beauty, would surpass anything else to which he put his name.
After all the plastic melodramatics on EastEnders, this was a series that revelled in mundane minor victories over an absent landlord state: dole scams, housing benefit fraud, disability swindles.
Hundreds of small British businesses and minor celebrities have been targeted by a sophisticated blackmail scam orchestrated by "rogue editors" at Wikipedia, The Independent can reveal.
Contact the police, anti-scam authorities or, if you're a minor, tell your parents or school authorities.
Libby had taken hers back to the shop after the wedding for some minor adjustment, and the chatty owner had unwittingly exposed Arden's scam.
Yaron Samid has a cool startup called Bill Guard that reviews credit card transactions looking for minor charges from known rip-offs and cons, and allows users to report potential scams.
But construction union UCATT, which represents many of the public bodies which fell victim to the scam, said larger firms would see the fines as "little more than a minor inconvenience".
Two scams enter – one scam leaves.
Arbitrage scams are common.
