Sure, sometimes people do become victims after being duped into giving up personal information.
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How could we allow ourselves to be duped into opening our wallets further by a colorful display of fresh flowers?
They note that during this period the Times was duped into believing that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction.
People can easily be duped into buying much more than they need and for higher prices than they need to pay.
The plaintiffs, 27 former Dahn Yoga practitioners, claimed they were brainwashed and duped into spending thousands of dollars on Dahn yoga classes and retreats.
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Can it plausibly be said that these plaintiffs were duped into purchasing ice cream as part of what they thought was a healthy dietary regimen?
In October of last year, the company was duped into running a series of fake advertisements laced with malware that infected the computers of many readers.
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Are you saying that market investors will be duped into accepting a yield that is less than warranted by the actual riskiness or time value of the bond?
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"It came as a total surprise, " says Don Buck, Institutional Resources' chief executive, who had no idea he had been duped into hiring Zurich until Spitzer filed the suit.
The Heisman Trophy runner-up became the butt of national jokes after it was revealed he was duped into an Internet romance he had with a girlfriend he never met.
Some lawmakers shook their heads in disbelief as GAO's Managing Director of Forensic Audits and Special Investigations, Gregory Kutz, listed some of the bills FEMA was duped into paying.
There are a number of ways that the handset owner could be duped into running malicious code, and the most likely is being duped into visiting a malicious website.
Stutzman, who is a former deputy chief of staff for former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, said he was duped into reading Armstrong's book, drawn in by the cyclist's compelling life story.
Jamaica's security minister Peter Bunting said he thought the shooting was connected to a lottery scam where Americans are duped into sending money to Jamaica in order to claim lottery winnings.
People were duped into sending a partial or full payment to a third-party agent via a wire transfer payment service and to fax their payment receipt to the seller as proof of payment.
One complaint already on the Web-site accounted the story of a customer who got duped into an exorbitantly high interest rate on his purchase when the customer service representative lied to him about whether he qualified for the "no interest, no payment" financing.
One e-mail claims to have duped CNN into reporting the words of a fake pro-Syrian commentator.
In other words, they felt BofA duped them into buying loans that were unhealthier than they thought.
Unfortunately, this is only a fraction of the amount it lost to people who duped it into buying hundreds of magic wands.
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Using this ruse, organized crime groups have duped thousands into receiving stolen property at their homes and opening shell bank accounts in their own names.
What is more, 2% of consumers said that their signature had been forged, 12% felt they had been "duped" into signing a contract and 11% had been transferred without their knowledge.
Upon discovering that those companies had, in her opinion, duped her into making those purchases through false or misleading statements, Ms. Ivie contacted some lawyers, and volunteered to be the lead plaintiff in a class action lawsuit.
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Between 2003 and 2008, the pair duped the banks into lending them the money to buy properties and a super-yacht.
Press accounts say he changed his name legally to Jonathan Taylor Spielberg, lowered his stated age from 27 to 16 and duped the school into thinking he was the nephew of director (and Forbes 400 member) Steven Spielberg.
The court heard the boy's family was "duped" by Ruby who entrusted their son into his care outside school for rugby matches and an overseas trip.
Meanwhile, Mr Kerry has morphed from supporter of the war into critic, claiming that he was duped by the hyperbole used to describe the Iraqi threat.
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