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Swindle
A swindle is a kind of fraud or confidence trick. Swindle may also refer to: People * Swindle (surname) Places * Swindle Island, British Columbia, Canada * 8690 Swindle, an asteroid Films * ''Il bidone'' (English titles ''The Swindle'' or ''The Swindlers''), a 1955 Italian film directed by Federico Fellini * The Swindle (1997 film), ''The Swindle'' (1997 film), a French crime-comedy film directed by Claude Chabrol and starring Isabelle Huppert * Swindle (2002 film), ''Swindle'' (2002 film), a crime thriller starring Tom Sizemore and Sherilyn Fenn * Swindle (2013 film), ''Swindle'' (2013 film), a television film based on Gordon Korman's book ''Swindle'' Other uses * 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 (novel), ''Swindle'' (novel), a 2008 children's book by Gordon Korman * Swindle (magazine), ''Swindle'' (magazine), a bi-monthly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swindle (2013 Film)
''Swindle'' is a 2013 television film starring Noah Crawford, Chris O'Neal, Jennette McCurdy, Noah Munck, Ariana Grande, Ciara Bravo, and Fred Ewanuick. Based on Gordon Korman's novel of the same name, the film tells the story of Griffin ( Noah Crawford), a boy who retrieves his friend's valuable baseball card from an unscrupulous collectibles dealer with the help of his friends. Sneak peeks promoting the film aired on Nickelodeon during three ''Sam & Cat'' & ''Big Time Rush'' episodes. The film premiered August 24, 2013 to an audience of over 4.2 million viewers. The film was released on DVD on March 19, 2014, and on Blu-ray on December 4, 2015. Plot Griffin Bing ( Noah Crawford) is a teenager known for helping out both friends and classmates in times of need. His friend Ben Dupree (Chris O'Neal) and his family are preparing to sell their home as a result of Ben's inventor father continuously failing at products. After one of his inventions accidentally punches a hole in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swindle (chess)
In chess, a swindle is a ruse by which players in a losing position trick their opponent and thereby achieve a win or draw instead of the expected loss. It may also refer more generally to obtaining a win or draw from a clearly losing position. I. A. Horowitz and Fred Reinfeld distinguish among "traps", "pitfalls", and "swindles". In their terminology, a "trap" refers to a situation where players go wrong through their own efforts. In a "pitfall", the beneficiary of the pitfall plays an active role, creating a situation where a plausible move by the opponent will turn out badly. A "swindle" is a pitfall adopted by a player who has a clearly lost game. Horowitz and Reinfeld observe that swindles, "though ignored in virtually all chess books", "play an enormously important role in over-the-board chess, and decide the fate of countless games". Although "swindling" in general usage is synonymous with cheating or fraud, in chess the term does not imply that the swindler has done any ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Swindle (video Game)
''The Swindle'' is a stealth action game developed by Size Five Games. The game was released for Windows, OS X, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, and Wii U in 2015. The game received generally positive reception, with critics praising the game's setting and tense gameplay. Gameplay The game takes place over 100 days. Each day a thief is sent on a heist to a part of London. The thief can search the region for money, avoiding or destroying a variety of guard robots patrolling the grounds. The thief can employ a variety of tools to destroy walls and other obstacles, hack computers for additional funds, or bug locations to turn them into income streams. Other gameplay elements include perma-death, as a thief can die in a variety of ways, or become stuck and eliminated with a suicide pill to avoid capture, and the player assumes another thief on the following night. Plot Set in a steampunk variation of London, ''The Swindle'' follows a group of thieves who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swindle (novel)
''Swindle'' is a 2008 children's novel by Gordon Korman. 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''. Plot A smart, young boy named Griffin Bing decides to invite his entire class grade over for a sleepover in an old, abandoned house that is slated to be demolished after the town's plan for using as a new space in their town to make a skate park was thrown out because of their youth. However, on the night of the sleepover, only Griffin and his best friend Ben Slovak show up. Griffin finds a vintage baseball card. The card was a 1920 Babe Ruth trading card worth $974,000. S. Wendell Palomino, or Swindle as the boys call him, stiffed them and gave Griffin only 120 dollars for the card. Griffin gave half to Ben. The boys attempt to steal the card from a safe in Palomino's shop, but it has been moved. After discov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swindle (magazine)
''Swindle'' was a bi-monthly arts and culture publication founded in 2004 by artist Shepard Fairey. The magazine has not been published since 2009. The magazine had a strong focus on street art and has featured Banksy, Invader, Faile, and Miss Van on its cover. ''Swindle'' has featured interviews with celebrities such as Billy Idol, Debbie Harry, and Grandmaster Flash. In 2006 and 2007, ''Swindle'' compiled annual Icons issues that featured 50 leading art and culture figures. Shepard Fairey's Studio Number-One produced the magazine until early 2009. Art direction for the magazine was done by Smyrski Creative. In addition to its regular staff, Swindle had contributors from the music, fashion, and creative industries, including Fairey, Banksy, Henry Rollins, Caroline Ryder, Clint Catalyst, Day19, Shawna Kenney, and Damien Hirst. In 2006, ''Advertising Age'' picked ''Swindles issue 8 as one of the "10 Magazine Covers We Loved." The ''L.A. Weekly ''LA Weekly'' is a free weekly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swindler (other)
A swindler is generally a charlatan, a person practicing quackery, fraud, or similar confidence trick in order to obtain money, property, or advantage by pretense. People * Swindler (surname), list of people with this name Media *The Swindler (novel) (Spanish: El Buscón), 1604 *''The Swindler'', novel by Ethel M. Dell *''The Swindler (film)'', 1919 British silent drama film based on the story by Ethel M. Dell *''The Swinder'', Swedish documentary by Jon Ekstrand *''The Swindlers'', re-release title for the 1946 film '' White Tie and Tails'' * ''The Swindlers'' (1963 film), 1963 Italian comedy film * ''The Swindlers'' (2017 film), Korean action film *Swindler, a fictional character, and toy in the Micromasters line See also *Swindle (other) A swindle is a kind of fraud or confidence trick. Swindle may also refer to: People * Swindle (surname) Places * Swindle Island, British Columbia, Canada * 8690 Swindle, an asteroid Films * ''Il bidone'' (English titles ''T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Swindle (1997 Film)
''The Swindle'' (french: Rien ne va plus) is a 1997 French crime-comedy film directed by Claude Chabrol that stars Isabelle Huppert and Michel Serrault. Plot Victor and Betty are small-time confidence tricksters operating from a camper van who specialise in business conventions. Betty lures a delegate to a hotel room, where she slips him knock-out drops. Victor then joins her and they go through his cash, cheques, credit cards and passport. Victor's golden rule is never to be greedy, instead taking just a bit from each victim. Betty enjoys exercising her powers of attraction, however, and gets more ambitious. She starts an affair with Maurice, who is a courier for money launderers and has to deliver an attaché case to the Caribbean. Victor reluctantly joins her plot, and they switch Maurice's case, which contains 5 million Swiss francs, for an identical case they have filled with newspaper. When Maurice's contacts find they have been swindled, they first torture him to death an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swindle Island
Swindle Island is an island on the North Coast of the Canadian province of British Columbia. It is located south of Princess Royal Island on the Inside Passage shipping route. The small First Nations community of Klemtu is located on its eastern side across from Cone Island. Price Island lies just south of Swindle Island. Both are located within the Kitimat-Stikine Regional District. Swindle Island's southernmost extremity is Jorkins Point, which lies at the confluence of Milbanke Sound and Finlayson Channel. Swindle Island is part of a volcanic centre called the Milbanke Sound Group which includes several monogenetic cinder cones. Kitasu Hill on the western side of Swindle Island is a young basaltic cinder cone A cinder cone (or scoria cone) is a steep conical hill A conical hill (also cone or conical mountain) is a landform with a distinctly conical shape. It is usually isolated or rises above other surrounding foothills, and is often of volcanic ... that produce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swindle (surname)
Swindle is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Christina Swindle (born 1984), American swimmer * Clinton Howard Swindle (1945–2004), investigative journalist and editor for ''The Dallas Morning News'' and author *Gerald Swindle, American professional bass angler *Liz Lemon Swindle Liz Lemon Swindle (born January 13, 1953) is a painter and artist known for her religious paintings, paintings of Jesus Christ, and works related to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Life and career Swindle studied f ..., (born 1953), American painter * Orson Swindle (born 1937), American Vietnam War veteran and former government official See also * Swindler (surname) * Swindell * Swindall {{surname, Swindle Surnames from nicknames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swindle (2002 Film)
''Swindle'' is a 2002 crime thriller film written and directed by K.C. Bascombe and starring Tom Sizemore, Sherilyn Fenn and Dave Foley. Plot Four thieves attempt to make the richest score in history. Cast *Tom Sizemore as Seth George *Sherilyn Fenn as Sophie Zenn *Dave Foley as Michael Barnes *Conrad Pla as Cisco *Katie Griffin as Judy See also *Girls with guns Girls with guns is a subgenre of action films and animation that portray a female protagonist engaged in shootouts. The genre typically involves gun-play, stunts and martial arts action. Cinema The 1985 Hong Kong film ''Yes, Madam'', directed ... External links * * 2002 films American thriller films 2002 crime thriller films 2002 independent films Girls with guns films 2000s American films {{crime-thriller-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fraud
In law, fraud is intentional deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right. Fraud can violate civil law (e.g., a fraud victim may sue the fraud perpetrator to avoid the fraud or recover monetary compensation) or criminal law (e.g., a fraud perpetrator may be prosecuted and imprisoned by governmental authorities), or it may cause no loss of money, property, or legal right but still be an element of another civil or criminal wrong. The purpose of fraud may be monetary gain or other benefits, for example by obtaining a passport, travel document, or driver's license, or mortgage fraud, where the perpetrator may attempt to qualify for a mortgage by way of false statements. Internal fraud, also known as "insider fraud", is fraud committed or attempted by someone within an organisation such as an employee. A hoax is a distinct concept that involves deliberate deception without the intention of gain or of materially damaging or depriving a v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Confidence Trick
A confidence trick is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their trust. Confidence tricks exploit victims using their credulity, naïveté, compassion, vanity, confidence, irresponsibility, and greed. Researchers have defined confidence tricks as "a distinctive species of fraudulent conduct ..intending to further voluntary exchanges that are not mutually beneficial", as they "benefit con operators ('con men') at the expense of their victims (the ' marks')". Terminology Synonyms include con, confidence game, confidence scheme, ripoff, scam, and stratagem. The perpetrator of a confidence trick (or "con trick") is often referred to as a confidence (or "con") man, con-artist, or a " grifter". The shell game dates back at least to Ancient Greece. Samuel Thompson (1821–1856) was the original "confidence man". Thompson was a clumsy swindler who asked his victims to express confidence in him by giving him money or their watch rather than gaining their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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