Conned
Both words in one sentence
- An earlier episode featured a Greek antiques dealer (played by BRIAN BLESSED!) who conned a Japanese business man into purchasing a Satsuma tea-bowl for millions.
Source: Violin Scam -
Bob Sherman, the insurance salesman played by Kelsey Grammer in "Death Takes a Policy", who conned desperate patients into undertaking risky experimental procedures and profiting off their deaths and murdered his former business partner by staging an accident in the shower.
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One of the standard tactics played by the Impossible Missions Force was to set up the target so the people the target worked for or with was convinced they were being betrayed or conned by the target, and letting them do the dirty work of the actual elimination.
Source: Framing the Guilty Party
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