Sentence examples for they were swindled from inspiring English sources

Still, those who feel they were swindled remain angry.

They were swindled, like a lot of other people".

According to Eduardo Sánchez, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry, the migrants were headed to the United States when they were swindled by smugglers along the border.

He checked people carefully before suggesting this, making sure they'd come from hundreds of miles away, so that by the time they'd discovered he tricked them, that they were swindled, they were unlikely to return.

[C4.] Bank Accused of Involvement Investors who contend they were swindled out of millions by a currency trading firm say that J. P. Morgan Chase bears some responsibility for their losses.

A group of international investors who say they were swindled out of more than $15 million by a currency trading firm that was based in the World Trade Center say that J. P. Morgan Chase bears some responsibility for their losses, which they discovered after the trading firm's offices were destroyed on Sept. 11 and several of its executives disappeared.

They do the crossing of the Sahara desert, they are swindled, they are often being ransomed, it's an incredibly violent trek to get to Libya and then cross into Europe.

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.

"We were lied to, we were swindled," Mr. Su said as his wife's eyes welled up.

"They aren't giving people four-hour layovers anymore, so people don't feel like they've been swindled into owning a ticket they didn't want," Mr. Blodget said.

Then they investigated and found that they had been swindled.