dupe
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Is she letting the cameras in to dupe us, to make us feel sorry for someone whose actions caused real harm?
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026
The man arrested in that case allegedly used AI videos to dupe people before.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Large language models are used to write convincing emails to dupe people out of their money, causing an eight-fold increase in complaints from older Americans as they lost $4.9 billion in online fraud in 2025.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2026
The gang even made fake double yellow lines made from stickers to dupe police.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026
“I would sooner swear an oath on an anvil and do honest work than dupe the world with make-believe.”
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
Marcello Hernández’s Rubio initially delivered his appeal in Spanish, only to abandon the pitch and admit that he, too, had been duped.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
But even if there’s no hard camera footage of Kao giving Collins burlap sacks full of cash, there is undoubtedly a story that she got duped into delivering federal dollars to a scammer.
From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2026
Tourists duped into booking fake stays at 10 Downing Street.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
Matthew's father was cleared of any involvement as he was also duped by Hayden-Johnson.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Bobby was on his feet in seconds, recognizing that he’d been duped.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
Scammers have become increasingly adept at duping customers into sending payments through elaborate social engineering schemes, including by developing romantic connections to their victims.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
The agency, which protects consumers from unfair business practices, accused Amazon of duping people into automatically renewing their Amazon Prime subscriptions through “manipulative, coercive, or deceptive user-interface designs.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2025
Somehow, boxing has a knack of duping the public.
From BBC ● Nov. 16, 2024
Alongside developing a relationship with fans and duping them into thinking Fegan was real Tegan, Fegan crossed other boundaries with Tegan's personhood.
From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2024
The entire food chain of intermediaries in the subprime mortgage market was duping itself with the same trick, using the foreshortened, statistically meaningless past to predict the future.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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