Sentence examples for there was a scam from inspiring English sources

"All we were clear about was that there was a scam and that, clearly, someone was robbing stuff that should go to the British Library," Edwards said.

"If there was a scam going on, we don't know how that one works," John Simley, a spokesman for Home Depot in Atlanta, told the gentleman.

Just last month, security experts warned there was a scam posing as a WhatsApp update which had the capacity to access and retrieve banking apps on your mobile phone.

First, there was a scam involving the country's fuel subsidy, in which oil importers were paid for fifty-nine million liters a day, while only thirty-five million liters were used domestically.

"You know, I always tell people, as soon as there is a scam in the hedge fund industry, someone is going to call about Bernie.

Then there was a clever scam called the Tasmanian Dodge: get your hands on a blank ballot, fill it out, and pay someone to cast it while smuggling out another blank, and you can vote as many times as you like without ever casting a ballot.

In fact, around the same time that police were raiding the bogus call centers, reports had surfaced that there was a new IRS scam in town: Fraudsters have started to send out notices about fake IRS tax bills related to the Affordable Care Act via email and traditional snail mail in an effort to up their meet their, ahem, sales goals.

He almost paid a fellow-Syrian twenty-five hundred dollars for transport on an express bus from the Turkish-Bulgarian border to "the center of Berlin," but then learned that there was no such bus; it was a scam cooked up by a desperate man who had run out of money.

There was a global insider-dealing scam that embroiled graduates of Norway's school of economics.

Bizarrely, at his trial he claimed there was a nefarious Chinese angle to his scam — he said he'd used the equipment to spy on a rogue Chinese Air Force general who'd stolen millions from his government.

But sometimes what they tell you is that there's a marketing scam in progress.