Example Sentences

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Swindlers have stepped up their game with artificial intelligence and deepfakes to steal older Americans’ money and personal information.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026

Annie's story is told in a new series of BBC Radio 4's Lady Swindlers with Lucy Worsley.

From BBC • May 22, 2025

"Swindlers mushroom when the economy is bad," said an executive at a consultancy that serves global asset managers in China.

From Reuters • Mar. 3, 2023

Cities were rife with crooked opportunists, from con artists to counterfeiters – the Anna Delveys and Tinder Swindlers of their day.

From Salon • Apr. 10, 2022

Cheats, and Swindlers, divided into eighteen different Classes—1st.

From A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their Prevention by Colquhoun, Patrick