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

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

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

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

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 11, 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

"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

That farmers always go into gold mine swindles because of the magnificently embossed stock certificates.

From The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind by George Jean Nathan

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 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

Her elaborate schemes, among them posing as the heiress to an Irish fortune, swindled people out of huge sums and left Marianne Smyth with two felony convictions.

From New York Times ● May 9, 2024

Her first master got swindled by a man who sold a device that cleaned cotton twice as fast as Whitney’s gin.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

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

He invoked a past prosperity, but his actual plans are to make a fortune by swindling the rest of us.

From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2025

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 Canadian conman has been jailed for 10 years for swindling tens of millions of dollars from more than a million Americans by claiming to be a psychic.

From BBC ● Apr. 16, 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