Word: scammed
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...while the details of this particular case are appalling, and the scam is the first - or at least first to be exposed - involving foreigners from as far away as the U.S. and U.K flying in for transplants, Indians are sadly all too familiar with organ rackets. In 2007, police in southern India uncovered an illegal kidney trade involving fishermen whose jobs had been destroyed by the Indian Ocean tsunami. A massive transplant ring in Punjab was also uncovered in 2003. Police there believe at least 30 of the donors, who as in this latest case were poor, illiterate workers promised...
...later, Kerviel - the rogue trader who has lost Société Générale $7.1 billion) - now has 347,000 hits on Google, 14 groups dedicated to him on Facebook, and a Wikipedia biography - and the mounting political scandal over how he pulled off the biggest scam in banking history is only just beginning...
...worth the effort, not because The Wire is good for you but because it is fantastic entertainment. Like The Sopranos, it's laugh-out-loud funny, full of gallows humor and hustles. In the first scene of Season 5, detectives use a low-tech scam to work a confession from a perp: they load a photocopier with papers reading TRUE and FALSE and convince him it's a lie detector. "The bigger the lie," says a cop, "the more they believe...
...England. But "he had had enough of being dead," she said, adding that "John desperately wanted contact with the boys again and thought he could pick up the pieces of his life." Mark and Anthony Darwin issued a statement this week saying they felt victimized by a "huge scam" and wanted no further contact with their parents. "It's beyond satire," Margaret Burns, John Darwin's aunt, told reporters. "You couldn't make...
...They might have carried off the scam, but Darwin, an avid outdoorsman, was, "going stir crazy" trapped in the house, she said. In 2004, the Mirror reported, the couple decided to move abroad. Darwin obtained a passport under the name of John Jones, and traveled to Cyprus and Gibraltar before the couple settled on an apartment in Panama...