• He is charged with sending spam emails which conned people into believing that they had won millions of dollars in overseas lotteries, or inheritance, or through a business opportunity.
• It works the first time, causing the person being conned to believe that the rest of the notes will be cleaned and thus yield a fortune.
• He managed to con people into believing he was an airline pilot, a lawyer and a doctor.

• Many cons and scams (throughout the world) depend on the greed and dishonesty of the victim to help the scam along.
• For those who enjoy movies about heists, cons, and double-crosses, this will satisfy.
• Homes in Writtle, Chelmsford, Springfield and Purleigh have been targeted with three cons used to trick elderly householders.

Synonyms

• We see no doubt that the Election Commission came to its decision after bearing in mind the pros and cons of the whole situation.
• If one is balanced one can weigh the pros and cons of particular situations more easily.
• Year in and year out the same comments are trotted out as to the pros and cons of the difficulty of the tests.

• Too many characters and situations are implausible - you surely wouldn't find such a tame, gentle set of cons in any prison.
• Let all but death row cons and pedophiles join up out of prison for a pardon.
• The measure was taken in response to security concerns and is not intended to punish inmates for their fellows cons ' transgressions.

• "Set in a notebook, learned & conned by rote" From Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare.
• We hope to show that a logic-based learning method can be applied to less conned learning tasks.
• Anyone who does know something about it is more likely to have acquired that knowledge in bits by conning books (however carefully) or taking a few workshops on weekends or for a week in the summer.

• I waited until the next con and let the convention officials tell him how it would henceforth be.
• Colin, despite his general enthusiasm for cons, harbors contempt towards what he considers the illiteracy of many fans.
• The IFilm crew has a bevy of videos shot at the con, including their annual rundown of scantily-clad women.

• Then the lanky, bearded boatswain would take the helm while the captain conned the ship from one bridge wing or the other, with the chief engineer at his elbow
• Why is the term ‘bridge’ used to signify the place from where a ship is conned?
• Together they stood in the foretops and conned the ship in through the seething maelstrom of the equatorial current.

• For example, his combat information center officer and operations officer had the conn through most of the Suez transit.
• Now, Mr. Morton, you have the conn and I have to get back to SickBay if I'm to be there when my son is born!
• An announcement came over the intercom: ‘QM1 Grob has the conn.’