Sentence examples for swindle up from inspiring English sources

It is a classic subterranean swindle, up there with turnstile hopping and token sucking: the selling of contraband swipes from an unlimited MetroCard to unquestioning subway riders.

But there is fraud and swindling up the chain of command, too.

Federal authorities in Manhattan are prosecuting at least half a dozen cases in which people are charged with swindling up to $600,000 apiece from government programs intended to encourage residency and help business recovery in Lower Manhattan.

If you get even the slightest inkling that someone is trying to swindle you, hang up and immediately call the agency directly.

The recent documentary, Girl Model, featuring 13-year-old girls scouted in Siberia and sent to Japan where they're swindled into running up huge debts by agencies, isn't a particularly reassuring snapshot of the modelling world.

What passes for reform now is actually a privatization swindle set up by former governor Jeb Bush.

Yet, surprisingly, many Dutch commuters are still unclear as to how to use it properly, and end up getting swindled by confusing checking in and out points.

A deal was set up for the sale which turned out to be a scam and Pike was swindled out of £50,000.

Great numbers of people back then saw through the swindles cooked up by Goebbels and consorts.

The messages were apparently of a familiar type: the "pump and dump" swindle, whose creators seek to drive up a stock's price so that they can unload their holdings.

She feels she was straight up swindled by people who had nothing happen to them.