Sure enough, he cheated customers by claiming to be an astrologer.

Sure, there's a difference between engaging in cutthroat business practices and unabashedly cheating customers.

Those charges, which stemmed from a two-year Federal investigation, mostly involved the falsification of trade times in order to cheat customers.

In September the auction houses agreed to pay the $512 million to settle claims that they had cheated customers as far back as 1993.

Many were vocal in their disgust, saying that the company heads had not just cheated customers but their staffs as well.

Still, most contractors say there is no need to cheat customers who are hurricane victims.

To them, to cheat customers isn't the problem; only getting caught is a problem.

For the first time, reports have circulated that a large number of traders may have attempted to cheat customers.

In some instances where, prosecutors said, the traders were cheating customers, they referred to the exchange's electronic order system with an obscenity.

"If he's been cheating customers, too, I'll have to think about whether I want to keep coming here."