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for personal gain through deception, fraudualent acts, dishonesty, false deeds and statements. It is an offence in the eye of law which terms it as another form of theft. It can be anything to do with property, assets, or money which the swindler ...
swindle
v. to cheat through trick, device, false statements or other fraudulent methods with the intent to acquire money or property from another to which the swindler is not entitled. Swindling is a crime as one form of theft.
Its collapse thereafter was largely due to state laws that forbade masks and eliminated the secret element, to the bad publicity the organization received through its thugs and swindlers, and apparently from the declining interest of the members.
 See also: State, Statement, Thing, Way, War
  
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