trick
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These websites closely resemble legitimate ticketing and checkout platforms and can allow scammers to steal log-in credentials, personal information and credit card numbers and trick you into sending in payments.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
Hackers are likely to try and trick Mythos into answering these questions, despite Anthropic’s controls—a process known as jailbreaking—but the company says it has done extensive testing to make that harder to pull off.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
Chinese spies are posing as recruitment agents to trick UK government and military staff into disclosing state secrets, MI5 has warned.
From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026
In the past, utilizing older farming equipment for longer helped do the trick.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026
“Um, this isn’t a trick question, is it?”
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
