It sounds like a late-night TV come-on for a phony get-rich-quick scheme.

The former director of a rural Saskatchewan library has been sentenced to two years in prison for his involvement in a phony book-buying scheme.

In the early 1990s, United States Attorney Joey Chin conducted a series of investigations, centered on a phony waste-to-energy scheme, that ultimately ensnared a number of prominent elected officials.

Was this a phony scheme perpetrated by double-crossers of the underworld?

I'll prove this is a phony scheme to get home.

It investigated threats on his life, extortion attempts and a variety of phony schemes, like one in which an auction house sold for $34,000 a red 1955 Corvette that had supposedly belonged to Mr. Presley but in fact did not.