Sentence examples for setting up a scam from inspiring English sources

The book starts in a bar, where Kip sadly watches an amateur crook fail miserably at setting up a scam.

If movie directing is setting up a scam, there's an exact moment when "Focus" loses its focus — when a viewer, or this viewer, at least, stopped looking it in the eye and felt his pocket being picked.

Set up a date.

Set up a bank.

Set up a table.

Set up a craft table.

Set up an account.

Redheffer moved to New York City and set up a similar scam after rebuilding his machine.

In September 1869, financial manipulators Jay Gould and Jim Fisk set up an elaborate scam to corner the gold market through buying up all the gold at the same time to drive up the price.

In early 2010 Carlisle helped set up a $2m sports betting scam in NZ, according to police there who issued a warrant for his arrest.

More than 60,000 credit cards were targeted in a £16m scam a gang of fraudsters have admitted setting up.