tricked

It is thought he had been tricked by criminals in West Africa into sending intimate pictures of himself and then blackmailed.

Jeanne de la Motte, a noblewoman fallen on hard times, pretended to be French Queen and tricked a cardinal into giving her the necklace, without paying.

A woman says she felt sick when she was tricked into transferring £20,000 to criminals after being persuaded to share her screen on a WhatsApp call.

So some of the golf carts are tricked out and look cool because people who live there want to have the nicest one.

It also refers directly to practices known as “blackbirding”, where Pacific islanders were tricked or kidnapped into slave or cheap labour in colonies throughout the region.