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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

In 2007, a Canadian judge ruled that Felderhof had been unaware of the swindle and found him not guilty of insider trading.

From BBC ● May 18, 2024

Purlie has a con artist’s cheek, but he’s trying to swindle on behalf of his community.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2023

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

With a single glance Clara realized that Getulio Armando was going to swindle her father in the business of the Australian sheep, because she read it in the color of his aura.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

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

This also speaks to the hollowness that all ideological language contains, to paraphrase Orwell, in its swindles and perversions, its slovenliness and vagueness.

From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2023

"Inflation swindles the bond investor ... it swindles the person who keeps their cash under their mattress, it swindles almost everybody," Buffett said.

From Reuters ● Apr. 30, 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

In most cases, patent medicines are swindles, pure and simple, containing no remedial ingredients and acting only as stimulants.

From Rural Hygiene by Henry N. (Henry Neely) Ogden

But voters weren’t about to get swindled again.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026

“I would never use the word swindled, but the context — yes, I have said that,” Bianco said after some back-and-forth about the particulars of his criticisms.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

A Philippine congressional committee rejected impeachment complaints against President Ferdinand Marcos on Wednesday over allegations he swindled taxpayers out of billions of dollars.

From Barron's ● Feb. 4, 2026

Ms Vouzelaud, 38, then tried to explain to him that he had been swindled and the couple urged him to go to the police to file a complaint.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2025

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

The 33-year-old fintech entrepreneur last month was sentenced to seven years in prison for swindling JPMorganChase, which purchased her student financial-aid startup in 2021 for $175 million.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2025

The following year, however, Violet and her mother were found guilty of swindling Violet’s ex-lover and their widowed neighbour.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2024

National Police chief Yasuhiro Tsuyuki, at a meeting Monday of top prefectural criminal investigators, said “tokuryu” have been part of surging cases of swindling via social media and have become a “serious concern.”

From Seattle Times ● May 17, 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