In 1981 the character was a brassy shoplifter; today, she scams out-of-towners by conducting nonsense-filled walking tours.
But before she could have it printed, she was scammed out of the money that she'd raised for it.
"The outcome for people is unfortunately that they will continue to be scammed out of millions of pounds.
Jillian Roberts contacted us after she was scammed out of the £4,000 that she paid for a family villa in Marbella.
Jackie Maxwell's sure-footed production highlighted the best of an entertaining play about a businesswoman scammed out of an inheritance by her gold-digging, spendthrift husband.
Back in the west, we may be shaking our heads at the lack of disclosure and naivete of a major Japanese company that may have been scammed out of millions of dollars.
In a coming television commercial, a man complains to the judge of a make-believe TV courtroom show that he was "scammed" out of hundreds of dollars by a clerk who sold him a suit in a department store.
From cancer forums to anorexia websites, LiveJournal to Mumsnet, trusting communities are falling victim to a new kind of online fraud, one in which people are scammed out of their time and emotion instead of their money.
China has a so-called "ghost driver" problem, with Uber passengers being scammed out of rides and money, fearful of being picked up by what looks like a zombie.
Instead, the pair found themselves scammed, out of pocket, and on the opposite side of the world - in China.
