swindle

"My Administration has guarded against the risks posed by malign foreign actors who attempt to swindle American citizens by taking advantage of the generosity of our Nation," the first executive order says.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

From her minimum security lockup, she’s begun mounting her own social media blitz in an apparent attempt to win Trump’s favor and get sprung from prison and freed from accountability for her epic swindle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2025

And while they concede that seniors may be more frequently targeted online than those younger, that, too, is based on a false assumption—that their age will make them easier to swindle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025

That fuelled speculation in Zambian media that some of the suspects might have sought to swindle gold buyers in a fake bullion scam.

From Reuters ● Aug. 30, 2023

A few of the spectators nudged each other with their elbows, obviously hoping I’d somehow swindle Ambrose into paying several times what my slot was actually worth.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

Americans are awash in scams, and while some swindles originate overseas, they are increasingly coming from closer to home.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

Whipple then swindles the Pitkin family out of its last remaining asset, a cow.

From Salon ● May 17, 2025

Draghi said it had not only spawned swindles but had also driven up costs because clients, knowing they would be reimbursed, had no need to bargain with builders over prices.

From Reuters ● Jun. 22, 2022

The Con In the new episode “The Heiress Con,” a woman claiming to be an Irish heiress swindles thousands of dollars from her friend.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2020

Maybe 'tis some of those new-fashioned swindles; 'tis said they can make plant stuff, so folks can't see the difference between it and wool.

From Ditte: Girl Alive! by Martin Andersen Nexø

But voters weren’t about to get swindled again.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026

“You’ve called Hilton unethical and dishonest and said that he swindled his way into the Republican side,” Collins said, citing an article from the Atlantic.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

A man has been charged in an investigation into Oasis fans being swindled out of thousands of pounds for fake tickets.

From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2026

The government warned about the dangers of crypto and broke up several huge scam operations, including one that allegedly swindled nearly $400 million from thousands of investors.

From Barron's ● Feb. 15, 2026

Kaz wasn’t a boy any longer; there was no reason Pekka should be able to see the child he’d swindled in his features.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

Residents have been receiving troubling calls from people pretending to be their grandchildren, swindling them out of thousands of dollars.

From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026

Timothy Barnes was not targeting strangers when he set about swindling people out of nearly £2m - these were his friends and neighbours.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

In August, a St. Louis man was convicted of swindling $200,000 from Kohl’s, according to the U.S. attorney for the eastern district of Missouri.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2025

Eva Longoria stars as Gala, a woman who has to flee to the small Spanish town that her mother left decades ago in search of a future away from her swindling husband.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2024

A Greek from the delta trading center of Nau- cratis, Cleomenes was an ambiguous Boss Tweed-like figure, chiefly remembered for swindling Egyptians and Greeks alike of enormous sums of money.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro