trick into
phrasal verb
tricked into; tricking into; tricks into
: to use a trick to make (someone or something) do (something)
He was tricked into buying the car.
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Many of the workers typing away for long hours inside these compounds have, like Sara, been tricked into working there, typically after responding to Facebook ads for legitimate-seeming jobs overseas.
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Christine Ro, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Some women have been tricked into ingesting the pills.
—Christa Brown, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
The intrusions typically begin with voice phishing (vishing) calls, where employees are tricked into approving a malicious OAuth application linked to their company's Salesforce instance.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Last week, Brave's security team discovered that Perplexity's Comet browser could be tricked into accessing users' Gmail accounts and triggering password recovery flows through malicious instructions hidden in Reddit posts.
—Benj Edwards, ArsTechnica, 27 Aug. 2025
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Christine Ro, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Some women have been tricked into ingesting the pills.
—Christa Brown, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
The intrusions typically begin with voice phishing (vishing) calls, where employees are tricked into approving a malicious OAuth application linked to their company's Salesforce instance.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Last week, Brave's security team discovered that Perplexity's Comet browser could be tricked into accessing users' Gmail accounts and triggering password recovery flows through malicious instructions hidden in Reddit posts.
—Benj Edwards, ArsTechnica, 27 Aug. 2025
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“Trick into.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trick%20into. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.
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