Swindle! The Sale of Fraudulent Science was a book that told the story of the "Preserver hoax", a scandalous incident in which three non-related but friendly Orion families sold counterfeit Preserver artifacts and documents to gullible Federation historians. They made a small fortune, while several reputations were shattered. Swindle! The Sale of Fraudulent Science was written by E. B. Murray et al., and published in New York, Earth, by Simon and MacMillan Books, on reference stardate 2/14 (c. 2270s).