Bogus deal

Usage examples of scam.

He and I are affinity bonded, which means I can quite literally smell out any scams you dickheads cook up.

Tell the law I think Arroyo had his own building bombed as part of a fund-raising scam?

The usual pattern was a small scam that got bigger and bigger, until the scammer attracted attention by overreaching.

The crack dealer, the shoplifter, the welfare scammer, the chain snatcher.

Indications were that he had no Hollywood or music industry contacts, that he was a con man who had pulled similar stunts in other states and who had successfully scammed several Bonita Vista residents before disappearing.

The rumor is that they do some big-league industrial-materials theft, contract fraud, union scams, phantom hours, world-class featherbedding, drugs.

He was a handsome devil who got busted and Thrown Away for operating a Ponzi investment scam that plundered the stock portfolios of a few hundred credulous old ladies in Sydney, Australia.

Mass torts are a scam, a consumer rip-off, a lottery driven by greed that will one day harm all of us.

Nothing incriminating, just Vulpes letting Vail know that he was still Aaron Stampler and that he had successfully scammed them all.

It was a simple but time-tested scam: Bribes allegedly were funneled to judges in exchange for reducing criminal bonds, suppressing evidence and divulging confidential police information.

Nemoto herself, or the other gerontocrats, who lay behind the whole scam.

Papers usually meant things she had to sign to avoid getting scammed by a school fund-raising drive.

The FTC - the US Federal Trade Commission - has taken legal action against more than 100 spammers for promoting scams and fraudulent goods and services.

She knew I got off easy: three convictions resulting from the scams I worked with Phil Turkel-a phone sales racket that involved the deployment of hardcore loops synced to rock songs and Naugahyde Bibles embossed with glow-in-the-dark pictures of the Rev.

Scott institutionalized and propounded as no one ever had before the agency scams and the pulp ethic of the 1930s, but he was as timebound a creature as A.