conning

Example Sentences

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How do I set it up to help protect his assets from possibly someone who is conning him?

From MarketWatch • Dec. 1, 2025

Three Southern California men are accused of conning over 100 victims — most of them elderly — into transferring funds over fraudulent security concerns or by way of falsified real estate sales.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2025

Yet it was this exact determination—to build power in an inherently flawed system—that turned him into the conning strategist he became.

From Slate • Dec. 12, 2024

A pensioner who was jailed a decade ago for conning friends out of £2.5m has been sent back to prison after defrauding a neighbour out of more than £100,000.

From BBC • Sep. 27, 2024

It also had two watertight hatches for entering and leaving the vessel, one at the front and another at the rear, and two short conning towers equipped with small portholes.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler