Sentence examples for scamming us from inspiring English sources

These are the kinds of people who allow bankers to keep scamming us and who think that because they have fond memories of their school and what it helped to turn them into, they are qualified to set the curriculum for the rest.

A girl comes into our lives to live with our family, and we don't realize that she's scamming us the whole time.

Nevada-based shell companies have been used to scam US military personnel, churchgoers and the elderly.

But note why he's mocking them: for supposedly hyping the conditions in their home countries — again, to scam us.

"We were told to pay 60,000 bdt (£500) so he could have an operation, but we later found out this was a lie and they had scammed us," she said.

I started working on the street in Paris, which I will never forget due to the violence I suffered from the police, false clients trying to scam us to get freebies, and homophobic gay-bashers.

This is a series, ultimately, that is out to scam us, trying to have us believe that the sexism Rizzoli experiences comes at the hands of lug-headed male colleagues who tell her to take some Midol when she is stressed out.

When we first started doing that, everyone would come with a song and dance, saying, "I couldn't print out my tickets!" One night some kid comes up with a 21-inch laptop and says, "Can you print my ticket for me?" People try and scam us all the time.

David Castillo, supervisor of the Dallas County Courtesy Patrol, a county-run agency in Texas that uses 10 pickups to aid stranded motorists, said, "Of course you get the people who try to scam us out of gas, so we always ask them now to try to start it first, and, of course, it starts right up with some of them".

The caretakers of America's essential infrastructure have scammed us, big time, and it's going to get worse.

But while most of us relate to unsolicited calls on an annoyance level, the bigger factor is that they are frequently being made with the attempt to scam us -- and that's something that seniors (the ones who are actually home all day and answering the phone), are especially vulnerable to.