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 (disambiguation)