Con artists take advantage of the credulity of inexperienced investors and swindle them out of their money.
Where did you swindle them?
Be careful. He's not an easy one to swindle.
He determined to swindle his creditors, and for this purpose he paid large cheques to a certain Mr. Cornelius, who is, I imagine, himself under another name.
He thinks, like that, that he can swindle me: he can mourn it!
He thinks he can swindle me like that : he can mourn it!
In this way a monstrous swindle was perpetrated upon the community, by fraudulently appropriating the public money to the use and benefit of private individuals.