Sentence examples for scam being from inspiring English sources

Having established this wasn't a scam, being unable to contact easyJet and needing to fly, I was forced to go online and book an alternative flight.

He added: "Their claim has to be, ultimately, that they weren't aware of the scam being perpetrated and therefore have no obligation to return funds that were paid out to them.

The ruling coalition government of India, led by Manmohan Singh, is so rattled by numerous recent scandals – the Commonwealth Games and the 2G scam being the most prominent – that it swings wildly from one extreme to another.

Scientist Katie Mack responds on Twitter to a climate change denier's request that she "should learn some actual SCIENCE then, and stop listening to the criminals pushing the #GlobalWarming SCAM!" "Being five centuries regressed in your reasoning doesn't mean we all can't still like your music".

Willis first came to prominence when, as a junior civil servant in 1995, he blew the whistle on a racket that in parliament was described as an "unprincipled scam being perpetrated by a cartel of high-street banks" where "£100m which rightly belonged to disabled people had been inappropriately siphoned … into private profits".

In a June 17 story that appeared on page 3 of the New York Post, Beth Piskora, a business reporter with the Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid, writes that at a conference on organized crime sponsored by Kroll Associates, the big-time New York-based business intelligence firm, she learned of a high-tech scam being perpetrated by an unnamed organized crime family.

The scam is simple.

The scam was going perfectly.

The scam was ingeniously simple.

Another newish scam is pension liberation.

The mechanics of the scam were straightforward.