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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

The use of artificial intelligence has only made the swindle easier.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 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

And Uber is helping investigators to try to catch whoever was behind the attempted swindle.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2024

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

In addition, the researchers found that scammers were creating fake profiles on Facebook so they could run weight-loss-drug swindles there.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2024

But all of the theft, big and small, illustrates an epidemic of scams and swindles at a time America was grappling with overrun hospitals, school closures and shuttered businesses.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 12, 2023

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

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

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

It’s a pleasure to be so deftly swindled.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2025

But maybe, I thought, she won’t wind up swindled by a con man someday because of having known me.

From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen

The company argued attorneys were swindling their own clients, inflating medical bills of car crash victims to increase the value of the settlement and then pocketing a hefty chunk of the payouts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 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

By the time he was arrested at his Manhattan penthouse in 2008, he had been swindling customers for decades through his wealth management firm.

From Salon ● Dec. 31, 2024

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

The only person they could ask about the painting was Valfierno himself, the person swindling them.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day