Sentence examples for selling scam from inspiring English sources

So it's strange that, in the thunderstorm of media coverage of President Trump ― never has any president sucked the air out of the media room this way ― his greatest pitch and what may be the greatest selling scam in history has gotten so little attention in these last six months.

However, Indigenous people were most commonly affected by buying and selling scams, said the commission's deputy chairwoman, Delia Rickard.

Rather like pyramid-selling scams, housing markets need a constant stream of fresh-faced hopefuls coming in at the bottom in order to keep delivering big returns at the top.

A kind reader woke us up this morning with a missive that made my blood boil: another scam iOS maker was, in an insult to the great Mojang itself, selling a scam version of Minecraft.

Five Kentucky men have been arrested for a book-selling scam.

The easy credit turned out to be a giant pyramid-selling scam.

To him, these voters are poor people who fear for the integrity of their communities and see globalism as a mis-selling scam.

The husband-and-wife team of Acey Johnson and Long Lee was convicted in 2003 of hatching a visa-selling scam at the embassy in Hanoi that continued in Sri Lanka and earned them $700,000.

In Lewis' case the burden is clearly also highly personal, given the fake ads are not just dodgy content but are directly misappropriating his image and name in an attempt to sell a scam.

An Italian immigrant with a conviction for his part in a pyramid-selling scam, Ponzi bought postal coupons that were depressed in value in Europe and sold them at a 400% mark-up in the US.

His shady financier, Augustus Melmotte, is at the center of a huge scam, selling shares in a railroad that doesn't exist.