swindler
a person who cheats or defrauds others:The swindler Charles Ponzi became infamous for the money scheme that was later named after him.
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However, as The Tinder swindler shows, it can also happen in face-to-face relationships.
First The ‘Love-Bomb’, Then The ‘Financial Emergency’: 5 Tactics Of Tinder Swindlers | LGBTQ-Editor | February 14, 2022 | No Straight NewsAccusations flew that she was ripping off investors, and Carlson revealed she was a convicted swindler who’d changed her gender.
Politics Report: BIA’s Big Decision | Scott Lewis and Andrew Keatts | March 6, 2021 | Voice of San DiegoThe Cleveland Browns waited 18 years just to have fate swindle them.
The Cleveland Browns were an NFL feel-good story. Then the coronavirus got jealous. | Jerry Brewer | January 6, 2021 | Washington PostThe most ridiculous character in Pay Any Price may be Dennis Montgomery, who is described as an inveterate gambler and swindler.
Speed Read: James Risen Indicts The War On Terror’s Costly Follies | William O’Connor | October 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThis kind of combat reached its apotheosis when the guest was an insurance swindler called Emile Savundra.
From the start, we see him as he is: a despot and a swindler, a Dallas blue-blood with FBI ties, fleeing a violent past.
This Week’s Hot Reads, July 15, 2013 | Sarah Stodola, Jen Vafidis, Damaris Colhoun | July 15, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTTop Producerby Norb Vonnegut A financial thriller about a Bernie Madoff-like swindler.
I will turn and face you,” the 71-year swindler in a Savile Row-tailored charcoal-gray suit said flatly: “I am sorry.
Does the old swindler think to persuade me that C. F. Garman is in want of cash?
Skipper Worse | Alexander Lange KiellandFiggered a swindler wouldn't never suspect nobody of swindlin' him with one of his own tricks.
Scattergood Baines | Clarence Budington KellandThe man who brought these calamities on his country was not a mere visionary or a mere swindler.
The History of England from the Accession of James II. | Thomas Babington MacaulayAlgernon Deuceace, you don't want a father to tell you that you are a swindler and a spendthrift!
Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush | William Makepeace ThackerayEvidently the swindler had dropped from the roof to the upper landing of the fire escape.
The Rover Boys on the Farm | Arthur M. Winfield (AKA Edward Stratemeyer)
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