Sentence examples for scam used from inspiring English sources

The Nigerian and the Tahitian allowed themselves to be ensnared in the now-common scam used by the English media.

Gebremedhin Araya, a former treasurer and TPLF co-founder Dr. Aregawi Berhe, detailed the scam used to swindle, hustle and con millions of dollars from international famine relief organizations in the mid-1980s.

The latest Nigeria-style scam uses Ebay and other online sales sites.

Postal worker fesses up to scam using Best Buy rewards [Star Tribune].

Prosecutors say Giampietro Manenti was part of a failed credit card hacking scam using stolen or cloned cards.

Report the scam using the email: [email protected]

If you think a call you received was a scam, use the FTC's complaint assistant [9] to report it, and do not give out information to the scammers.

Very real indeed are some who claim to have known Mr. Pellerin well, like the art dealer Olga Korper and the playwright Jean-Frédéric Messier, who describes him as someone "who scammed, used and shafted so many people".

Since the stolen photos were first published last Sunday, Apple has admitted that iCloud accounts were breached by hackers but has maintained that the fault was down to poor passwords and phishing scams used to obtain individuals' log-ins – not because of Apple's own security.

And because so-called phishing scams use fake Web sites to collect username and password information, SafeCentral takes an extra step to verify the authenticity of the sites it visits.

Born in 1922, Skinner spent his 20s on the make in India, handily defrauding the locals of their rupees and luring educated Anglo-Indians (who ought to have known better) into complex no-win scams, using his apparent race-blindness as bait, sensing their thrill at being treated as equals by an Englishman who acted as if "the haze of color and class had evaporated".