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If people are being conned with parking tickets, they're probably being conned elsewhere.
I've been conned in the past and getting conned doesn't mean that you're stupid, but it does mean that you didn't get what you wanted.
" The document states that Trent Jackson "conned employees at Mrs.
Everybody that stole money, or conned the boss or whatever.
When he arrived, the man realized he had been conned.
One poor guy got conned out of more than 11k.
Stanford conned more than 18,000 people out of their money.
False prophets clearly fascinate Lindelof; "Lost" 's best arc, the life story of the wannabe prophet John Locke, was all about whether being conned by your dad set you up to be conned by God.
Others were conned by fake travel agents, or robbed by bandits.
He's conned them, he's defrauded them, and he's ripped them off.
Clearance Rack — Noah conned his way into becoming Moe's lab partner.
Bridget realizes she's been conned, and heads out to seek revenge.
The reality is that you voted for Trump because you got conned.
They've lied, and conned and BSed me for a very long time.
She lied, conned, cheated, and fought to be a self-made millionaire.
When he shared notes with Wu and Shahanska, they determined they were conned.
You were conned by one of the greatest who ever played the game.
If Remain wins on June 23rd, Brexiteers will tell voters they were conned.
In addition to Marlow, the prankster seemingly conned Breitbart editor-at-large Joel Pollak.
Folks, we've been conned for as long as Cadbury's been making its Creme Eggs.
You don't have to wait until after Thanksgiving to watch Connie Britton get conned.
Sugar Sorry to spoil your morning muffin, but it looks like you've been conned.
Pathak said she could have been conned into letting the men into her room.
Madoff conned hislist of investorsout of a whopping $65 billion, according to CNN Business.
In fact, he muses, he just might be getting conned from beyond the grave.
And even that con artist character is there because he's been conned by somebody.
Or are we just a bunch of suckers being conned into thinking our balls stink?
Was Syed truly wrongly convicted, or had he conned his supporters into believing his innocence?
Grim stories abound of young players in Africa conned by bogus scouts and talent agents.
We believed we had learned the language, played the part, that we had conned them.
Ms. Miramirkhani had some simple advice to avoid being conned: Don't pick up the phone.
And yet the men who conned Jared apparently had no trouble getting through to him.
Then again, Delvey's a pretty notorious scammer... so maybe she conned her way into iPhone privileges.
If anything, the part about her feeling like she "was being conned" seemed to have resonated.
"We, ah... not kidnapped a guy, but we conned him to come with us," Hunter said.
At an absurdly young age, I even conned someone into paying me to write about them.
When it arrived, he was dismayed (though perhaps not shocked) to learn that he'd been conned.
Grifter stories work because you don't sympathize with any of the people who are getting conned.
In 2018 alone, more than 21,000 people were conned into sending $143 million in such schemes.
By the way, Lewan eventually conned investors out of almost $5 million, according to the show.
He conned 13 women out of around $1.8 million in various frauds between 2013 and 2016.
Now all sides—pro- and anti-Trump, pro- and anti-Brexit—feel like they are being conned.
Baker-Rhett felt conned into purchasing a Tidal subscription, which cost $9.99 per month at the time.
To those who believed Trump would be a friend to LGBTs, time to admit you were conned.
When I was first starting out freelancing I got frequently conned into working for $25 a piece!
Some of the most influential people conned by Ms. Sorokin were never asked to take the stand.
"There are young academics, there are people in developing countries who are being conned by this," Daube explained.
As seen on Soulja's extremely long and spon-conned filled Instagram stories, they enjoy getting their nails together.
Do you think there are some people who don't really want to know if they are being conned?
Martorell said some of the migrants were conned, while others had been abandoned or otherwise put in danger.
Anna Delvey, the Russian woman who conned elite New York establishments into financing her life as a grifter.
And what actions they are taking now, now that they know they were conned by a corrupt FBI agent?
What's worse, David has conned his way into a job as an orderly, and no one will believe her.
At first glance it's a wonder how two sides can both believe they are being conned by the other.
It's clouded in mystery now, as if a private detective just conned her way into an after-hours club.
To make it even more interesting, Kiarostami cast the actual family that was conned by the man on trial.
Then, Perrin revealed he had actually out-conned the con artist, and told them he was donating the money.
She thinks that she's in on it, but it ends up that she's actually being conned the whole time.
You also have to realize that no matter how intelligent you think you are, you can be conned, said Francvilla.
The story of how she conned the NYC elite was so captivating that Shonda Rhimes is taking it to Netflix.
"We, ah… not kidnapped a guy, but we conned him to come with us," Hunter said on a DEA wiretap.
When Dr. Tang suggested even more red-light treatment, at a cost of $930, he finally grasped he'd been conned.
But it was a different story when it came to Fulford, who conned him out of an estimated $1.2 million.
Not only will you be conned out of a gift, but you might have accidentally joined an illegal pyramid scheme.
They're getting conned by right-wingers and tent revivalists until they believe all the lies that've made them so wrong.
This particular defense would hinge on painting Singer as a manipulator who conned Loughlin and Giannulli into participation in the scam.
Even if only one user in a million is conned into buying some dubious pills, the revenues far outweigh the costs.
The state also wants Hickey to give the photos he took, potentially in the thousands, back to the women he conned.
They've lied and conned and BS'd me for a very long time now and I don't even consider myself Republican anymore.
And he's, to this day, just incredibly angry at her, and it seems to be at himself that he was conned.
I still don't get how Olivia Wilde, Oscar Isaac, and Annette Bening were conned into the most inflated movie since Beaches.
The spy service conned Congress over the efficacy of torture; CIA's counterterrorism chiefs held steadfast to the idea that torture worked.
I was recently conned into downloading a rewards app for a ramen place I go to at most once a year.
Higher Goals pitched fake debt relief services, and Veterans of America allegedly conned people into donating vehicles for a fake veterans charity.
In his lifetime he conned, threatened, and attacked multiple women for monetary gain, all the while feeding his ever-present drug addiction.
Teddy Telemachus conned his way into a classified governmental study about telekinesis, where he met his wife, Maureen McKinnon, a real psychic.
"You wouldn't want to live in a world where you couldn't be conned," Williams and Milton note (quoting the illusionist Ricky Jay).
Saying he thinks the Republican Party has been "conned," Graham told CNN Friday that he and Trump don't share the same beliefs.
The Netflix Binge puts viewers in a kind of trance, in which we suspend, for a time, our worry over being conned.
It's ironic how often Scorpios get conned into fighting other people's battles, only to be left with little energy for their own.
Its two volumes paint a picture of Donald Trump as deeply narcissistic and incompetent, alternately conned and ignored by everyone around him.
But as I learned, parents and students around the country have been conned into thinking that it's not only possible but standard.
It only applied to domestics hired through six recognized state recruitment agencies, excluding women using unofficial channels or conned by fake agents.
"The people of Pittsburgh cannot be conned by this guy Lamb because he's not going to vote for us," Mr. Trump said.
Hannah Ann and Kelley are conned into thinking they are both safe when one of them is actually about to be rejected.
Once they know they're being conned, they become pint-sized crusaders for truth and equal-sized scoops of ice cream for all.
"The people of Pittsburgh cannot be conned by this guy Lamb," Trump said, dismissing Lamb's efforts to run as a moderate Democrat.
The country is now aflame with anger and disgust about politicians and bankers who conned trusting Americans and never got punished for it.
I feel sick each time I hear of another victim being conned because of trust they wrongly thought they were placing in me.
Many of his allies feel as conned by this pardon as people who bought fake relics from Chaucer's pardoner in "The Canterbury Tales".
The only way to describe it would be to compare him to a con artist, though he conned us without necessarily taking anything.
One of Trump's greatest pros is that he has convinced his supporters, all evidence to the contrary, that they are not being conned.
No, it is not our place to condemn Melania Trump for wearing a jacket so expensive that it actually seems like she got conned.
" Khan continued, "He conned Ms. Presley into believing he was competently managing the estate when in reality he was just serving his own interests.
"He's trying to con people into giving him their vote, just like he conned these people into giving him their money," Mr. Rubio said.
What about the dude who posed as Sidney Poitier's son to gain entry to Studio 54 and conned Gary Sinise into giving him money?
But the array of bottled waters available on the market is a testament to the fact that humans can be conned into buying anything.
In other words, much like the SNL parody, the movie acts as judge and jury and implies that the brothers' theater conned an objective system.
"What saddens me is that over the next eight to nine months people are going to see that they got conned," Apatow told Variety Wednesday.
It's like a plot from "The Producers": Manhattan prosecutors say an ex-talent agent conned seven people out of $165,000 for a fake Broadway play.
But she's more intent on tracking down Ben (Peter Krause), the vanishing fiancé who conned her out of her savings, her clients — and her heart.
The liberty to be considered a rational adult, fully capable of making her own decisions who doesn't need to be conned or pressured into sex.
He and his underling were conned by Jimmy, who turned on his superhuman sales chops to convince the pair to hire him on the spot.
And often, it cloaks itself in feminist-sounding rhetoric: Women, don't you realize that you — yes, you, you specifically — are being conned by the patriarchy?
Rubin claims the couple, who she met at an event at the Asia Society in 2009, conned her into buying $18 million in knockoff jewelry.
These are just a few of the many luxury items the antiheroines of Hustlers snatch up throughout the film with money they conned from men.
Americans rooted for John Dillinger even when he killed innocent people, and got excited when "rich millennials" and Instagram influencers got conned by Billy McFarland.
And in a culture that demands we consume and respond to every granule of media, maybe faking it is the only way to not get conned.
But he conned two boys into watching it, and the word spread throughout our whole yard that this was the most realistic prison film they'd seen.
Down in the boiler room, you begin to think dark thoughts about a generation of young American workers, conned into disposable jobs like those HubSpot provides.
"Hustlers" is inspired by a 2015 article that profiled a group of former strippers who conned Wall Street men out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
In it, they alleged that, since 2111, 2155 people they knew of had been conned out of a total £212017,212002 [$212017,2111] at the Broad Street club.
To make sure you're not conned by a fake site (even if the logos and pictures look super legit), there are some rules to live by.
The Russian alleges Bouvier conned him out of $1 billion by inflating the price of 38 pieces of art he bought over a 10-year period.
Remember, Lonzo had sued Alan first back in April ... alleging the longtime family friend had conned them and swindled him out of more than $1.5 million.
The show will be about how Holmes conned people into believing that her company had developed a diagnostic system that only required the smallest drop of blood.
Shortly after they were seen together at the festival, Charles tweeted — without naming Gomez — that a boy he was seeing had essentially conned perks out of him.
A report in 2011 by the AARP, a lobby group for the aged, found that people conned into fake investments tended to be more qualified and richer.
But rather than warning their friends about the show, audience members recommend it, so that everyone will be in the same boat and end up getting conned.
Part of scamming's appeal as a pop narrative is how it can function as a corrective in a system that has time and again conned vulnerable populations.
The governor of Pennsylvania happens to be Jim Matthews, Garrett Walker's former vice president who got conned into stepping down by then-whip Frank, who replaced him.
Mr. Trump, who hosted "The Apprentice" on NBC for 14 seasons, dismissed Mr. Corker on Tuesday by mocking his height and suggesting he had somehow been conned.
Some expressed sympathy for those who are conned, and others voiced anger at the criminals and a system that seems to do little to protect the vulnerable.
At least 442 service members across almost every branch of the armed forces had been conned out of a total of more than half a million dollars.
I've been a teacher, primarily of middle and high school English and Latin, for a long while now, and in that time I've been conned a thousand times.
Many women - often poor and illiterate - are conned into surgeries by quacks masquerading as doctors or hospitals seeking compensation for treatment from the state's funds for the poor.
Similar cases of smaller channels being conned out of cash through the platform's strike system have cropped up more than a few times on the site's help forums.
Dirty John is based on the Los Angeles Times podcast of the same name, which tells the story of how Newell was conned by her grifter boyfriend Meehan.
This…Read more ReadThe Fake Sex Doctor Who Conned the Media Into Publicizing His Bizarre Research on Suicide,…Warning: This article includes discussion about suicide and sexual assault.
He slipped into the Midtown crowd, and I realized why he looked familiar: He had conned me a year earlier with a story about running out of gas.
None of the Kims, who never let on that they're related, have a problem fitting into their new milieu or doing the jobs they've conned their way into.
We were conned and outmaneuvered by the money and power of the N.R.A., and now we have to clean up the mess if we care about tomorrow's innocents.
No pyramid scheme was bigger than TelexFree, which conned 1.8 million victims worldwide into shelling out $3 billion to get in on what was, essentially, a bogus business.
John Gorman admitted last May that he had conned 22 victims into believing he had more than two dozen personal seat licenses at MetLife Stadium available for sale.
Cole Sprouse Was Conned Into Singing When the first Riverdale musical premiered last year, much fuss was made over the fact that Jughead's portrayer Cole Sprouse would not sing.
He's now in a county jail in Ocala, Florida, awaiting trial for the murder of two construction workers whom he conned into thinking he was going to hire them.
And after Trump locked up the Republican nomination, Graham said that Trump doesn't have the temperament or judgment to be president and said Trump has "conned" the Republican Party.
Sadly, the majority of conservatives have been conned into voting for Donald Trump (who, if you listen to what he's said in the past, isn't really a conservative anyway).
According to the news outlet, Evaldas Rimasauskas pleaded guilty on Wednesday to one count of wire fraud in relation to the phishing scheme that conned the two tech giants.
In 2012 the Republican nominee chided Barack Obama for his naive attempts to reset relations with Russia, suggesting that Mr Obama had been conned by an ex-KGB spy.
Authorities said Sorokin, who lived a luxurious lifestyle among Manhattan's elite, conned friends and banks out of loans and paid for private jets using fake checks, according to WGNO.
Ex-NBA stars Earl "The Pearl" Monroe and Henry Bibby claim they got "conned" into joining a new basketball league ... only to get screwed out of thousands of dollars.
At least 250 service members across almost every branch of the armed forces had been conned—by prisoners—out of a total of more than half a million dollars.
For any of the resistance efforts, real and fictional, the German public that supported Hitler was conned into believing the rumored atrocities of the Holocaust were just that: A fiction.
But in real numbers, 8 million more poor white people are being conned by the Southern Strategy and the extremists who use it to build their own power and wealth.
Overall, the harm can be very real: If people can be conned into jeopardizing our children's lives, as they do when they opt out of immunizations, why not our democracy?
Mark Firth, a home restorer who dreams of bootstrapping his way to greatness, is conned quite literally: He loses everything in a Ponzi scheme and then has his identity stolen.
Lonzo Ball is suing Alan Foster -- the co-founder of the Big Baller Brand -- alleging the longtime family friend conned them and swindled them out of more than $1.5 million.
The lawsuit said the Trumps deliberately conned victims into believing Donald Trump stood behind the investments and thought they would pay off, when the real goal was to enrich themselves.
It's the story of a top private investigator, Alice Vaughan, who has been conned out of millions by her husband and sets out on a thrilling private mission for revenge.
The same profile paints the Australian photographer as a deluded playboy who conned his way into the art world by creating bland images that appeal to the rich and tasteless.
For me, the big challenge was to construct this episode in a way that in the end you're sort of conned into empathizing and caring about what happens to him.
Perhaps we are finally waking up to the idea that we've been conned—that in falling into the optimized lifestyle trap, we're missing out on the life we actually deserve.
The film is inspired by a 2015 New York Magazine article that profiled a group of former strippers who conned Wall Street men out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
"One might take you in" could mean that someone will allow you to live with them, or it could mean that a SCAM ARTIST has conned you (taken you in).
His political opponents seized on the allegations, and angry former students — including Ms. Simpson — spoke out, painting Mr. Trump as a huckster who had conned ordinary people for personal profit.
Be very wary whenever you're asked for any kind of account details, or information that could identify you, especially if you feel like you're being rushed—chances are you're being conned.
"It seems to me, Dr. King, that the department is moving painfully slowly while students who got cheated are struggling under debts that they were conned into taking on," Warren said.
The Catch centers on private investigator Alice Vaughan (Mireille Enos), whose fiancé Benjamin Jones (Peter Krause) conned her out of her money before sacrificing himself to save Alice from wrongful imprisonment.
"The reality is that the latest offer is just as insulting as the previous one, and our members won't be conned or denied what they deserve," he said in an email.
Games companies could have better considered their legacies and shown respect for money consumers had spent, but we got conned into thinking that, no, it's we who need to show thanks.
The singer is scoring Oscar buzz for her role in Hustlers, a film based on the true story of strippers who drugged and conned Wall Street men out of major money.
There were the drapery producers Trump stiffed, the real estate executives he refused to pay, and the other dozens of contractors whom Trump conned or ripped off in one way or another.
And after Trump locked up the Republican nomination early this month, Graham said that Trump doesn't have the temperament or judgment to be president and said Trump has "conned" the Republican Party.
But there might be more to this story than a bunch of dumb rich kids allegedly conned out of thousands by a rapper who hasn't had a top 33 album since 2004.
Some want to test their confidence, others appear to have conned their friends into being roasted, some have lost bets, and of course there are those who just find being roasted hilarious.
A key subplot of the series remains: When she's not cracking cases, Alice is on the trail of her fiancé (Peter Krause), who conned her out of her life savings, then vanished.
Better than anyone who'd come before, the Prince of Humbugs understood that the public was willing—even eager—to be conned, provided there was enough entertainment to be had in the process.
Maverick GOP strategist and longtime Trump friend Roger Stone told The Hill on Monday that he believed Trump had been "conned" by liberal-leaning members of his own administration into backing Strange.
Mr Curtis: They may have been conned about some of the reasons to vote for Brexit, but that vote was still an expression of what they feel, which is a sort of anger.
Or very Peter Krause: He has a sure touch for the cat-and-mouse playfulness the show will need after Alice, realizing she's been conned, sets her mind to reversing Christopher's vanishing trick.
Part of scamming's appeal as a pop narrative is how it can, in the right hands, function as a corrective in a system that has time and again conned vulnerable populations of people.
Well, you know, I was approached about this by two people who had been conned by her: Graydon Carter, former editor of Vanity Fair Magazine, and Richard Plepler, who until recently ran HBO.
Ma-ma has more or less conned future Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain into joining the family for dinner in the hopes of convincing him to take her side in her ongoing hospital battle.
Following that, it was discovered that when she first registered in Britain in 1995 Alemi had conned medical bodies into believing she had a qualification from the University of Auckland in New Zealand.
Burr essentially conned Hamilton into backing his plan for a public waterworks, and then changed the wording in the Manhattan Company's charter to make it a front for a New York public bank.
I was struck by the number of people and institutions mentioned in the book – from Sotheby's auction house to the United States Navy – who were too embarrassed to prosecute people who conned them.
CreditCreditTom Jamieson for The New York Times LONDON — A former television producer here, Robert Moore, once loved working on comedies akin to "Candid Camera" or "Da Ali G Show" that conned the unsuspecting.
In Ron Shelton's still-winning comedy, set on the street courts of Los Angeles, Mr. Snipes's character first is conned by, then forms an alliance with, a former college hoops player (Woody Harrelson).
I suppose the question is, when people realize that they've been conned, will they snap out of their stupor or will they become more resentful, more frustrated, and more vulnerable to demagogues like Trump?
When police intervened to arrest Meehan, he was driving a car apparently extorted from another woman and living in a cluttered RV that he'd conned from a third woman, according to the former investigator.
From the horse who broke into a bar to the admirable dog who conned her way into free McDonald's, the scammer spirit was strong in the animal community (mostly in the interest of food).
Over the course of two years, from around 2013 to 2015, the Quanta imposter reportedly conned the accounting departments of Facebook and Google into transferring tens of millions of dollars into foreign bank accounts.
Crucially, Twix bars have more than enough chocolate to wrap all the way around the cookie bar; you're never going to feel conned into eating a dry cookie underneath a stretched layer of chocolate.
And the party's base consists disproportionately of the easily conned — those who are easily fooled by claims that Those People are the problem and don't notice how much the true Republican agenda hurts them.
Think of the contractors and architects he's stiffed, the women he's groped, the students at Trump University he's conned, the refugees from a war-torn world he's targeted — the list goes on and on.
It's the opposite of moral ambiguity, or any kind of caustic writing—no matter how wrong it may seem, everything you do in the subsequent Grand Theft Auto games is ret-conned to feel right.
Convinced that he wasn't being conned, Syed handed over his cash-stuffed envelope and lifted the buckets into his van; he planned to FedEx the product to his customer the next day before flying home.
The lawsuits against Trump University allege that the get-rich-quick seminar company, which promoted the classes as "the next best thing to being Trump's apprentice," conned countless wannabe business moguls out of their cash.
In what is considered to be the real-life version of Shawshank Redemption, two inmates conned their way out of prison using a guard named Joyce "Tilly" Mitchell (played by Patricia Arquette in the series).
Le Carré plied the detectives with tales of how Ronnie conned his way around the world, including the names of people in his posse who did jail time for him and would do it again.
As tragic as the losses may be, they are made even more so by the fact that there is a slim possibility Wannakuwatte could have been stopped by some of the very people he eventually conned.
After being conned and reduced to bankruptcy, Burns seeks revenge on the producer with the help of Homer, Bart, rapper Jazzy James (Keegan-Michael Key) and the mogul's ex-wife, Praline (Empire star Taraji P. Henson).
She "conned" Flynt into giving her a three-year contract, which replaced her Playboy one, and spent years with the magazine, becoming one of the only people who would stand up to the notoriously bolshy publisher.
The future of the United States and the most important election in a generation, and he's trying to con people into giving them their vote just like he conned these people into giving him their money.
Or Timothy Camus and the Internal Revenue Service impersonation scam team, a group of Treasury, I.R.S. and other agency workers who unearthed and alerted Americans to a scam that had conned unknowing taxpayers out of millions.
Motherboard investigations have revealed how users have been hit by SIM hijacking attacks thanks to wireless industry employees who are either paid—or conned—into "porting out" a target's phone number to an attacker-owned device.
Williams went on to write the book My Friend Anna about their relationship and how she was eventually conned out of her savings by the woman who claimed to have all the money in the world.
I'm glad we kidnapped Myles, duct-taped cameras to his hands and forced him to… OK, sorta conned him into… well, politely asked him to… shoot everything, so we could look back with clarity at the blur.
In a largely unrelated plot, Nerd Face, a new emoji who uses big words and has a crush on Smize, gets conned by his new friend Skull into making a virus that will murder everyone in Emojiland.
Donald Trump appears to have conned his way to the White House with the help of the news media who gave him hour upon hour of uninterrupted TV coverage to shout and scream and lie with impunity.
For the past few years, a handful of glamorous, high-rolling scam artists who conned their way into elite society — making hundreds of thousands, millions, or even billions of dollars along the way — have captivated American media.
" When he hears of Koresh's "vision" mandating celibacy for his male followers but allowing himself to have sex with any woman he chooses, Thibodeau suspects he "might just have conned everyone into allowing him an exclusive harem.
The disappointed voters in the film "seared into me," Bannon said, the fact that middle-class Americans badly wanted change, and could be lured away from the Democratic Party if they felt that they had been conned.
While we were together, I later found out, he had been using major drugs, and he conned me into co-signing on a motorcycle (that he still has and I pay for so I don't ruin my credit).
New York (CNN)It sounds like the plot of Broadway hit "The Producers" come to life: A man conned seven investors into giving him $165,000 to produce a fake Broadway play, the Manhattan District Attorney's Office said Friday.
His words soared as if he could part the seas; his talk about a post-partisan America gave hope to a real draining of the swamp—the type Donald Trump conned millions into thinking he would deliver on.
Years of small indignities piled up, the minor court cases, like the one with the neighbor who allegedly conned him in a small-time bank swindle that involved transferring someone else's money to him and paying her back.
A lawyer for the New Jersey woman who was allegedly involved in a plan to scam some 14,000 GoFundMe donors out of more than $400,000 says Kate McClure was "conned" and "used" by her boyfriend and the homeless vet.
The Sri Lankan immigrant — who came to California and built a business importing and selling surgical gloves — conned investors, attorneys, banks and even a whole town by claiming to have lucrative contracts with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
It's hard to imagine them cursing, much less breaking the law—but according to the cops, a pair of cafeteria ladies in New Canaan, Connecticut, are actually criminal masterminds who conned their school district out of thousands of dollars.
Two months after defrauding Wang, Su—this time playing the part of the mother with the menstruating daughter—was part of a group that conned a fifty-four-year-old woman in Sunset Park out of nineteen thousand dollars.
In anticipation of the move, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted Sunday that Trump "should know better than to be conned into another US disaster," suggesting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was a driving force in the decision.
But of course the viewer who experiences vicarious delight in their capers — ice cream tastes so much sweeter when you have conned some tourists into paying for it — is simultaneously conscious of an undertow of sorrow, anxiety and dread.
People who are trusting in nature tend to be happier and healthier, and contrary to what we may believe about the types of people who are easily conned, the more intelligent you are, the more likely you are to trust others.
So is it a surprise to anyone that 2019 will play host to not one, but two, documentaries about the blonde, Jobsian wannabe who conned Silicon Valley out of billions of dollars with little more than words and grandiose dreams?
Local authorities were contacted by the American law enforcement agency and said an investigation revealed the boy was upset that the FBI was unresponsive to his claims that a fraudster had conned him out of around $1,000 worth of Bitcoin.
The plaintiffs claimed that the Trumps received millions of dollars of secret payments from 2005 to 2015 to endorse ACN and conned them into thinking Donald Trump thought their investments would pay off, when the real goal was to enrich themselves.
But the most enduring idea running through the book, the one that is perhaps most vital to the America of 2017, is the deep and profound belief held by most of the characters in The Locals that they have been conned.
Iran's response: In anticipation of the move, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted Sunday that Trump "should know better than to be conned into another US disaster," suggesting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was a driving force in the decision.
And as the almost palpable shock wore off, there was among the many reeling journalists — some in the room, some still on the streets of Kiev, others in newsroom across the world — the distinct, unnerving feeling that they had been conned.
Meanwhile, the military is getting conned by two Decepticons (voiced by Angela Bassett and Justin Theroux), who are trying to worm their way into the military's communications infrastructure to enact a dastardly plan that will lead to total world destruction.
Consulting the programme notes again, we learn that Orgon, the credulous billionaire conned by Tartuffe, is an ex-pat Frenchman "whose children, brought up in Anglophone countries, are entirely bilingual, and who is obliged to speak English to an apparently monoglot house guest".
Shonda Rhimes is tackling the case of New York City grifter Anna Delvey in her first series under her new Netflix deal, while Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are producing a movie about the man who conned McDonald's out of Monopoly money.
PONNERI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When police raided the brick kiln in southern India where Siriya Banchor had been conned into a life of bonded labor - along with hundreds of other poor, illiterate migrants - the 2300-year-old seemed more bewildered than relieved.
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That half-translation of Migos et al comes to a head on the next song, when he shouts "I conned her into / Ripping the condom in two," in something that sounds like a cross between outright parody and that Steve Buscemi gif.
Jimmy Kimmel conned an unsuspecting bunch of tourists into waltzing into the Dolby Theatre in their comfy sneakers and daypacks, right in front of the very stars they idolize enough to ride around on a bus all day looking for them. Ouch.
"Most of us don't believe that we can be conned, and when we meet someone that we like who is offering us something that we want and we don't know that it's fake yet, then naturally we want to defend them," Wentz said.
WASHINGTON — As some on the right howled about a series of reversals by President Trump on a number of his campaign promises — conned, betrayed, sold out, they said — Rush Limbaugh asked his listeners this week whether any of that flip-flopping really mattered.
Ms Pluckrose, Mr Lindsay and Mr Boghossian join a long list of gadflies who have successfully conned journals into publishing ridiculous made-up findings, beginning with Alan Sokal, a physicist at New York University, who submitted a hoax paper to Social Text in 1996.
The constant sense that someone has conned you is in some ways the dark underbelly of the American dream: If America is supposed to be a land where anyone can succeed if they work hard enough, and you're working hard, why aren't you succeeding?
But you also spend a lot of time with two other journalists who were conned by her: Ken Auletta, esteemed New Yorker writer, and Roger Parloff from Fortune magazine, who, I don't want to spoil it, but he's this through-line through the documentary.
LONDON, March 23 (Reuters) - A jailed fraudster, who conned investors out of 5.5 million pounds ($7.6 million) by pretending to be a foreign exchange trader, was sentenced again by a London court on Friday after he opened five bank accounts under the radar of authorities.
The release of Sharp Objects and its ensuing popularity coincided with what became known as the "Summer of Scam," a phenomenon that began with a viral Cut story about Anna Delvey, a young woman who conned wealthy elites out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The remains of a notorious 19th-century serial killer — who was the subject of Erik Larson's 2003 bestselling book, The Devil in the White City — are being exhumed to finally dispel the rumor that the killer conned his way into having another prisoner executed in his place.
" Infowars called Mr. Trump's slashing anti-immigrant rant on Wednesday "an excellent speech sure to win him support from those who've been conned by the lying media into thinking he's some evil demon creature when the truth is he's a man with a heart of gold.
Local media reports suggested the women were conned into thinking they were taking part in a prank TV show, but Bakar dismissed these suggestions on Wednesday, saying the pair had practiced their attack twice in shopping centers in Kuala Lumpur on the day of the attack.
I love that she conned everyone into letting her stay on this god-forsaken island for another week even though she didn't get a rose and quite literally had done nothing but cry and scheme since the minute she came traipsing out of the woods the week before.
It should be called the My Beautiful Little Sister Lost Custody of Her Son, Stole From and Conned People, Was Raped and Burned With Cigarettes, Tried to Commit Suicide, Had Sex for Drugs and Money, Went to Jail, Was Homeless, and Ultimately Lost Everything Including Her Own Life Epidemic.
In that final moment, when Kim feels so very far away from Jimmy and even from us, the show pulls back the camera just enough to reveal something both she and we should have realized long ago: When you become this close to a con artist, you might get conned yourself.
And Trump is not alone in being conned: House Speaker Paul Ryan has been fooling a lot of people for a long time, making the world believe that he's the foremost Republican policy wonk, an expert in the fine print of budgets who could bring a much-needed seriousness to Washington.
There are some gems, to be sure: "Sportsmen," a finely drawn portrait of outdoorsy American boyhood; "A Man in Louisiana," in which a city slicker is conned by a country dog breeder; "Like a Leaf," about a widower struggling with his first serious romance since the loss of his wife.
I told her how the Bone Collector had driven me into the city, how I was awakened by a deafening garbage truck, how I had braved the crowded theaters on Broadway, and how I had conned my way into a cab after a taxi was taken from me at knife point.
For example, you might befriend a pathological liar and end up in jail, be conned into selling your vehicle for a dollar, or encounter a steely-eyed border patrolman named Gomez who won't rest until justice is done on a certain dope-smoking young man hoping to attend a music festival.
Offerman's Illinois-raised voice and actor's talent suit him ideally to channel Mark Twain and his archetypal American Puck (that "P" isn't a typo), who played pirates with an archetypal American Huck, conned his pals into whitewashing the fence, fell in love with Becky Thatcher and showed up alive at his own funeral.
Spike Lee's latest film, BlacKkKlansman, is based on the true story of Ron Stallworth, a black undercover cop who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan back in the 1970s and conned his way to the top of a chapter in Colorado—climbing high enough to make contact with the Klan's then Grand Wizard, David Duke.
Showrunner Alexandra Cunningham — whose past credits include Chance, Aquarius, and Desperate Housewives — sat down with Refinery29 at the Dirty John premiere in Los Angeles to discuss why women should trust their gut, how Dirty John will differ from the podcast, and why, under the right set of circumstances, we could all be conned like Debra Newell was.
I thought of all the workers out there soon-to-be-unemployed by automation or other advancements, conned into fighting tooth-and-nail for the privilege of ruining their bodies in a coal mine or an 80-hour workweek of multiple sub-minimum wage gig economy jobs rather than addressing the larger forces at play keeping them impoverished.
The twisted tale of how Holmes conned many a Silicon Valley investor and made her way to the top of Forbes' list of 50 Richest Self-Made Women is fascinating on its own: In addition to the HBO documentary, Holmes is also the subject of podcast The Dropout and the nonfiction book Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup.
Chinese authorities have arrested 21 suspects linked to Ezubo and its parent company, Yucheng International Holdings Group, on charges of illegally collecting funds, having allegedly conned more than 50 billion RMB ($0003 billion) from investors, according to the state news agency Xinhua P2P sites, which bring lenders and borrowers together, play a big part of China's $2.6 trillion-and-expanding wealth management industry.
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It's hard for them to be thrust into the spotlight for this, but they're still committed to trying to get the word out there and to let people know that predators are out there and they take advantage of the weak and the naive and the gullible and I think, really, the message they want people to know is that anyone can be conned.
The hipster grifter, fraudulent socialite Anna Delvey, the fake Saudi prince, Fyre Festival (and maybe, if you squint, even college admissions fraud) — they all have one thing in common: A sexy, alluring cast to the con that makes the feeding off the (metaphorical) blood of the conned even more seductive to those of us sitting on the outside, munching popcorn as our eyes widen.
" Trump's true valuation: "In our first-ever list, in 4503, we included him at $100 million, but Trump was actually worth roughly $5 million — a paltry sum by the standards of his super-monied peers..." His stake in Fred Trump's business: "It would be decades before I learned that Forbes had been conned: In the early 1980s, Trump had zero equity in his father's company.
When one of them approached the foot of the structure, gazing up at the patients, Little Huang and Mr. Wang screamed out their demands: find experts to treat them; arrest the physicians and nurses who conned them; ban the surgery that had made them all "eunuchs"; and pay for them to collectively undergo medical testing, the first step in legally proving the harm the surgery had caused.
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And City Girls' ascent is perfectly timed in this season of the scammer, sitting comfortably alongside last year's Fyre Festival, the social media rise of character Joanne the Scammer, the recent exposures of New York It girl Anna Delvey and then literary grifter Anna March, and the upcoming release of a Jennifer Lopez vehicle based on a true story of strippers who conned their Wall Street clients out of thousands of dollars.
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Our national pastime couldn't be more appropriately represented now than by a nationally loathed, orange-clad team that conned its way to a throne; than by an arrogant franchise that, in addition to the cheating scandal, fostered a hostile, misogynistic, media-taunting culture in which the Astros felt they were above the law; than by a squad that, though widely reviled by a majority of fans as unworthy of a title, is maddeningly predicted by pundits to strongly compete for another this year.

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