swindle

Finance professionals, doctors and lawyers recount being taken in by tricks like the jury-duty swindle that stole $25,000 from a Florida woman.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2025

This is just one of the many ways in which these compounds swindle billions of dollars around the world.

From BBC ● Mar. 24, 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

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

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

"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

I can't say it is a matter which appeals very strongly to my sympathies, because of the swindles he perpetrated, but if it is an unjust accusation something should be done to help him.

From The Adventures of a Country Boy at a Country Fair by James Otis

A New York woman admitted to defrauding Wesley Edens, a co-founder of Fortress Investment Group and co-owner of the Milwaukee Bucks, resolving allegations that she had extorted the billionaire and swindled two other men.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

But know only that in its opening minutes we learn that we have been swindled and are now part of a ritual of sorts to summon said alien.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 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

They wanted to be a voice for the pet owners swindled by Britton, most of whom are still too traumatised and guilt-ridden to speak out, as well as a visible symbol of the community’s horror.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2024

Why should they go and get swindled at some other establishment when they can come here!

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

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

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

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

House of Representatives, was arrested by FBI agents and briefly jailed after the federal government unsealed an indictment accusing him of swindling at least $1.7 million from business partners and multiple companies that he owned.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 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