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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 problem was she was making plans not with “General Hospital” star Steve Burton, but with a scammer who intended not to romance her, but to swindle her.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2025

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

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2024

"With so many people seeking properties online, scammers will look for opportunities to take advantage and swindle people out of their money," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2023

However, from the color of his rays she knew at a glance whether he was hatching a swindle, and she could defuse one of his tantrums with a few simple, mocking words.

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

Whipple then swindles the Pitkin family out of its last remaining asset, a cow.

From Salon ● May 17, 2025

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

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

Draghi said it had not only spawned swindles but had also driven up costs because clients, knowing they would be reimbursed, had no need to bargain with builders over prices.

From Reuters ● Jun. 22, 2022

On the contrary, C. & H. pronounced them, on the test of a London accountant, 'mere swindles.'...

From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I by Downey, Edmund

But voters weren’t about to get swindled again.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 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

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

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

I wonder who Eb, Riley, and Bill swindled.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

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

Hiding her true identity behind more than 40 aliases, con artist Annie Gordon Baillie made a living swindling shopkeepers across Victorian Britain.

From BBC ● May 22, 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

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

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day