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Swindle is a 2008 children's novel by Gordon Korman. [1] It is a caper story about the retrieval of a valuable baseball card . The book was the first of a series, followed by Zoobreak , Framed! , Showoff , Hideout , Jackpot , Unleashed , and Jingle . [ 2 ]
It typically aims to rob the victim of his money or other valuables that they carry on their person or are guarding. [3] A long con or big con (also, chiefly in British English, long game ) [ 4 ] is a scam that unfolds over several days or weeks; it may involve a team of swindlers, and even props, sets, extras, costumes, and scripted lines.
Swindle (chess), a ruse by which a chess player in a losing position tricks his opponent; Swindle (Transformers), several fictional characters in the Transformers universe; Swindle, a 2008 children's book by Gordon Korman; Swindle, a bi-monthly arts and culture publication from 2004 to 2009; The Swindle, a 2015 video game
Swindle is back, and he wants his dog, Luthor, back. After the once menacing guard dog almost won the Global Kennel Dog Show, S. Wendell Palomino (AKA Swindle) sees a chance to become rich. And with that money, he'll devote his life to ruining Griffin and his friends' lives.
Bait-and-switch is a form of fraud used in retail sales but also employed in other contexts. First, the merchant "baits" the customer by advertising a product or service at a low price; then when the customer goes to purchase the item, they discover that it is unavailable, and the merchant pressures them instead to purchase a similar but more expensive product ("switching").
A restaurant's job is to sell food and drink (you didn't need me to tell you that). But what you might not know is all the sneaky ways they trick patrons into spending more money than they would ...
Eventually, Ward gained the trust and investments of Grant, Jr., whose name he attached to his own firm, now called Grant & Ward. Ward ran the company as a Ponzi scheme , claiming that he had inside access to government contracts, a claim which gained further credence when the former president later joined the firm as a full partner after ...
Esformes was among 20 people — mostly political cronies of former President Trump implicated in scandals —whom Trump granted a full pardon or commutation of all or part of their sentences.