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1 swindle
1. сущ.общ. мошенничество, надувательство; афера, сомнительная сделкаhe was charged with a £1.8 million insurance swindle — он был обвинен в страховом мошенничестве на сумму в 1,8 млн фунтов
Syn:2. гл.общ. обманывать, надуватьa businessman swindled investors out of millions of pounds — предприниматель обманом выудил у инвесторов миллионы фунтов
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swindle — [[t]swɪ̱nd(ə)l[/t]] swindles, swindling, swindled VERB If someone swindles a person or an organization, they deceive them in order to get something valuable from them, especially money. [V n out of n] A City businessman swindled investors out of… … English dictionary
swindle — swin|dle1 [ˈswındl] v [T] [Date: 1700 1800; Origin: swindler person who swindles (18 21 centuries), from German schwindler someone confused or unbalanced ] to get money from someone by deceiving them = ↑cheat swindle sb out of sth ▪ a businessman … Dictionary of contemporary English
Advance-fee fraud — African sting An advance fee fraud is a confidence trick in which the target is persuaded to advance sums of money in the hope of realizing a significantly larger gain.[1] Among the variations on this type of scam are the Nigerian Letter (also… … Wikipedia
