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

"My Administration has guarded against the risks posed by malign foreign actors who attempt to swindle American citizens by taking advantage of the generosity of our Nation," the first executive order says.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

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

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

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

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

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 records show that the principal beneficiaries of these swindles were some of the most conspicuous planters, mercantile firms and politicians in the South.

From History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times by Myers Gustavus

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

Being considered is Musk's claim that Altman - with whom he founded OpenAI - has swindled him out of millions of dollars and reneged on the ChatGPT-maker's original non-profit mission.

From BBC ● Apr. 28, 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

Gentile, she added, “basically pulled a Bernie Madoff and swindled people out of their money, and then he gets to go home to his wife and kids.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2025

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

"These are not just gentlemen thieves, confidently swindling us of a few pennies here and there," says Craig Rice, who heads up the CDA.

From BBC ● May 19, 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

Eva Longoria stars as Gala, a woman who has to flee to the small Spanish town that her mother left decades ago in search of a future away from her swindling husband.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 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