Sentence examples for off the scam from inspiring English sources

Did he have help in pulling off the scam?

But maybe that made it easier for him to pull off the scam.

He probably couldn't have pulled off the scam in a regulated fund.

Reichek says the reality star and his friend pulled off the scam more than 50 times in the years she knew him, although no charges were ever filed against either one.

Bodek was able to pull off the scam in part because he performed dentistry in nursing homes and assisted-living centers, where older patients were presumably easier to steal from.

2012 – At some point in early 2012 Alexander Perepilichnyy, a Russian businessman who helped the tax officials who signed off on the scam hide their new found wealth, begins working with Hermitage and Swiss prosecutors to expose how much of the money was laundered.

On top of that, many extortionists are believed to be pulling off the scams from prisons.

As Madoff appears to have pulled off the biggest scam in financial history, he shares at least this super-lative quality with Trollope's colorful flim-flam man.

The "will you pretend to be my boyfriend" quickly turns into "will you come up to my room" and sets off the classic scam involving an unsuspecting male caught in a compromising position.

"Vishers" in other countries need a local number to pull off this scam.

Alan Sokal is an icon for bad science hunters the world over, the man who pulled off the greatest academic scam of our times, and gave post-modernist commentators on science the public slapping they've always deserved.