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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 con artist in Ritter’s novel is a young woman with a murky past and visions of absconded riches who is ensnared in an elaborate swindle that recalls David Mamet at his most labyrinthine.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2025

The Police Service of Northern Ireland said criminals will constantly change how they present scams to lure people in and swindle them.

From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2024

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

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

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 12, 2023

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

Mourn, ye Knaves in the Public line, Your swindles lie stark in the broad sunshine, The guests whom you sheared ere you let them go Have made all the world your extortion know!

From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various

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

Last year I wrote about two retired L.A. residents, a former teacher and a former banker, who were swindled out of roughly $80,000 apiece in internet scams.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 23, 2024

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

That poor couple was going to get swindled if he didn't stop them.

From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat

"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

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 Greek from the delta trading center of Nau- cratis, Cleomenes was an ambiguous Boss Tweed-like figure, chiefly remembered for swindling Egyptians and Greeks alike of enormous sums of money.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro