Sentence examples for were being tricked from inspiring English sources

Consumers were being tricked into thinking four products were designed to treat a specific type of pain.

Macdonald thought that people were being tricked into buying this stuff by being told that they ought to like it, or that it was good for them.

Which? made the super-complaint in September when it raised concerns that the sums consumers were being tricked into transferring were "often large and can be life-changing".

Australia's consumer watchdog launched the court action in March, arguing that consumers were being tricked into thinking that the four products - Nurofen Back Pain, Nurofen Period Pain, Nurofen Migraine Pain and Nurofen Tension Headache - were designed to treat a specific type of pain.

But Facebook users felt they were being tricked into sharing this data, and worse, giving it over to Facebook to use for advertising purposes.

Explicit comparative advertising "caused [customers] to fear that they were being tricked in some way" (Source: Stanford Study).

In each, a young man is being tricked out of his fortune by a colourful rogue, or pair of rogues.

In "Dreams For My Father," Obama writes, "There was a trick somewhere, though what the trick was, and who was doing the tricking, and who was being tricked, eluded my conscious grasp".

"No one was being tricked into donating to Occupy Sandy," said Daniele Kohn, who is part of the team managing Occupy Sandy's finances.

Cameron spoke to the imposter, who was claiming to be the GCHQ director, Robert Hannigan, but ended the call when he realised he was being tricked.

The commenters who claim the writer is anti-feminist do so without questioning whether they're being tricked into the attack.