Taken in

If you are taken in, you are fooled by some sort of trick or scam. Be careful online don't get taken in by silly scams.
Don’t let them get you!

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English Idiom: Taken in

Even though we try as hard as we can not to make mistakes, sometimes even the best of us get taken it.


If you are taken in, you are fooled by some sort of trick or scam.


There are many different scams on the Internet.

These scams are designed to trick us into giving up our secret data.

The scam artists want passwords or something as simple as our birthdate.

If we are taken in by a smooth and slick sales pitch, we give up our information to a con artist, and they try somehow to steal our money.

People are fooled every day by phishing attempts and fake emails designed to look authentic.

We have to be on our toes to avoid getting taken in or fooled by these scams.

The smarter we are at detecting these attempts, the better the con artists get at designing them.

Every week, they look and sound more and more authentic.

Pay attention, stay on your toes and don’t be fooled.


This post is understandable by someone with at least a 7th-grade education (age 12).  

On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 79.  

The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.



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