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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

“Ah, this odious swindle, human life,” he swore, after his daughter Jean endured a major epileptic seizure.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2025

The Police Service of Northern Ireland said criminals will constantly change how they present scams to lure people in and swindle them.

From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2024

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

He was filled with embarrassment: embarrassment for the human race, its preoccupation with money, its love of swindle.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Then Hek recites all the weak points in our logical firewalls that allow conspiracies and swindles to find purchase: Fake news.

From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2025

For more guidance, the Federal Trade Commission offers tips for how to avoid charity swindles, including Giving Tuesday scams.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2022

"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

Her self-improvement plan dated back to Ben Franklin but found its most indelible expression in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s creation of Jay Gatsby, the mysterious, alluring, handsome millionaire who also ran a few swindles.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 4, 2022

The farmer does not compass sublime swindles like the merchant, nor such sharp practice as the lawyer; but in small ways he is the peer of either.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864 by Various

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

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

All the people who claimed to have been swindled by Mr Cavanagh said they had made complaints to Action Fraud.

From BBC ● Jun. 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

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

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