The phrase "a swindle of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or act that involves deception or fraud, often in a financial context.
Example: "The investigation revealed a swindle of millions of dollars that had been perpetrated by the company's executives."
Alternatives: "a scheme of" or "a fraud of".
The famous sportswriter Jimmy Cannon, who hated Ali, called the fight a "swindle of a charade".
During the Great Depression, the firm lost much of its capital in a swindle of its own invention.
In "The Man Who Loved Dogs," Padura writes that "the Utopia was betrayed and, worse still, reduced to a swindle of the greatest human wishes".
Even if you're working on a swindle of epic proportions, the person buying needs to feel confident that he's getting the better end of the deal.
His undoing came when he tried something less Olympian, a swindle on the £386,000 estate of widow Kathleen Grundy, a former mayor of Hyde, when she died in June 1998.
Givling was started by Lizbeth Pratt who was forced to declare bankruptcy shortly after graduating loan-free from Stanford University because of "a swindle" by the manager of the business she worked at.
William Greider of The Nation writes: "If Wall Street gets away with this, it will represent an historic swindle of the American public — all sugar for the villains, lasting pain and damage for the victims".
The plot seems to have something to do with Bruno Brian Conleyy), a big-time British lowlife whose embezzling accountant (the one who loses an ear before dying) has gotten him in tax troubles that prompt him to conceive a swindle involving the sale of his shipping company and the transfer of millions of dollars to a safe haven in the Cayman Islands.
(Dickens, again, would have inspected the nominee, smiled at the hair, noted the cuffs and the tie pin, and instantly recognized a type: "Another prominent feature is the love of 'smart' dealing: which gilds over many a swindle and gross breach of trust... and enables many a knave to hold his head up with the best, who well deserves a halter," he wrote.
But there was a possibility of a swindle.
In the mid-1990s, Mr. Dotcom received a suspended two-year sentence for a swindle that made use of stolen phone card numbers.
