dupe
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The man arrested in that case allegedly used AI videos to dupe people before.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Experts call this a type of fraud "social engineering" - where scammers dupe their victims using psychological manipulation, instilling fear and urgency.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 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
The knight thought he could dupe the sailor.
From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys
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
Monk had been duped, according to charges later laid out in arrest warrants secured by the local sheriff’s department.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Tourists duped into booking fake stays at 10 Downing Street.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
The entertainers duped people by interrupting a musical program with newsflashes, which the public had come to trust.
From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow
This is time-limited to make duping or sharing the QR code more difficult.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
Though there have been stories about kids cutting through the pouches or duping administrators by putting in decoy phones, those troublemakers amount to only a small percentage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 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
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
She told me she couldn’t stand the thought of Marcus duping more people into following him, and I didn’t argue with her.
From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth
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