dupe

the newspaper was duped into publishing an untrue story.

that trumpery hope which lets us dupe ourselves.

ensnaring an unsuspecting dupe with fast talk;

He was duped into telling them everything.

They were the dupes of a clever but dishonest salesman.

Gullible shoppers are easily duped by unscrupulous advertisers.

he could vent his spleen on the institutions which had duped him.

Of this band of dupes and impostors, Paul was the great Coryphaeus, and first corruptor of the doctrines of Jesus.