Episodes focus on Gilman tracking down bank robbers, horse thieves, swindlers, and murderers. It was also used for counterfeiters, swindlers and coin forgers during the Middle Ages. Finance ministers soon became expert swindlers, cheating and extorting on a grand scale. During her career, she specialized in exposing fortune tellers and swindlers. A suitable amnesiac, "Anna", is groomed by the swindlers to impersonate Anastasia. He was appointed superintendent of Castle Garden, and worked to protect emigrants against swindlers. Stein joined the United Swindlers with members of Frantic Flintstones and Ripmen. He shows how both sellers and swindlers have to overcome similar forms of buyer resistance. According to Augustine, they were not genuine students of Hipparchus or Eratosthenes but "common swindlers". The Swindlers is a 2017 South Korean crime action film directed by Jang Chang-won. In 2017, Yoo starred in "The Swindlers" along with Hyun Bin. He was described by a judge as "one of life's great swindlers". He said he lost his last $15,000 to swindlers in a lumber deal.