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Recent Examples of rip-offsSpeaking of rip-offs, Ganjei advises rigorous protection against theft.—
Carol Besler,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2026 After the online store’s supply ran out, sellers took to eBay and Etsy with options ranging from official replicas to blatant rip-offs.—
Chris Gardner,
HollywoodReporter,
10 June 2026 According to a transcript, under cross-examination by attorney Lee Rothman, Hennen admitted to drug dealing, gambling rip-offs, and hustling pool throughout the Northeast and Midwest.—
Andy Sheehan,
CBS News,
26 Jan. 2026 The clues led reporters to the Ozarks, where a tangle of local disputes on Facebook and Google review sites and in local courts ultimately tied the Graceland plot to Findley, a grandmother with a decadeslong history of romance rip-offs, forged checks and bank fraud.—
Jon Schuppe,
NBC news,
23 Sep. 2025 Over the past 20 years of Black List darlings and Edgar Wright rip-offs, the American film industry has established a new archetype of cinema filled with quippy antiheroes, gory allegories for domestic strife, and character actors rattling off reference humor.—
Sam Bodrojan,
IndieWire,
11 Sep. 2025 More people walk away from bad deals, money sucks, and rip-offs.—
Stav Ziv,
CNBC,
20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rip-offs
thefts
Noun
Investigators tied the enterprise to more than 150 baby formula thefts throughout Florida, ultimately causing Publix, Target, Walmart, Walgreens, CVS and Winn-Dixie to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Saleen Martin,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2026
Prosecutors allege that other members of the enterprise continued committing cryptocurrency thefts and laundering money after Lam’s arrest.
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Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
9 Sep. 2026