How to Use fraudster in a Sentence

fraudster

noun

• But such investing can be high-risk and more opaque than the public stock market—and a draw for fraudsters.
  — Coulter Jones, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2018
• He was detained and held for two months in jail, and was derided on television as a fraudster.
  — Thomas Grove, WSJ, 7 Aug. 2018
• First, the fraudsters scraped content from legitimate sites to create copies.
  — Lara O’Reilly, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2019
• Robocalls come with real costs for consumers, including the risks of getting scammed by fraudsters.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 11 July 2019
• Telco fraudsters aren’t just bugging Americans with too-good-to-be-true deals and outright swindles.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 14 June 2019
• Yet there is not the slightest sign that Biden used his influence to encourage pursuit of the financial fraudsters.
  — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• The news media are replete with stories of fraudsters, scammers and fictitious advertising.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 June 2019
• Frequently fraudsters impersonate members of the military or professionals whose work takes them abroad.
  — Kevin McAllister, WSJ, 6 Jan. 2019
• For example, in one common tactic, the fraudsters will tell their target that they’ve already been victimized and are helping to secretly investigate the crime.
  — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2024
• Social Security benefits can’t be outlived, reduced by stock market downturns or stolen by fraudsters, Maestas notes.
  — Liz Weston, The Seattle Times, 17 Sep. 2018
• Dewey says that the fraudsters opened the AXS account, not her.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 9 May 2024
• For the fraudsters, of course, the scheme was nothing more than a way to make money.
  — Jordan Michael Smith, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2024
• And the fraudster is now logged into the portal as the consumer.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 30 June 2022
• Thus, the fraudster said, the woman owed Amazon $3,500.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 23 Apr. 2021
• In other words, fraudsters and hackers are pulling out all the stops to defraud you.
  — Marc Saltzman, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2020
• Imagine a slice of Swiss cheese, with random holes where a fraudster can get through.
  — Kaleigh Rogers, ABC News, 19 Apr. 2024
• This time, the issue was blamed on third-party fraudsters.
  — Rob Wile, NBC News, 5 Aug. 2023
• The woman bought a $300 gift card and sent it to an email address provided by the fraudster.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 20 Jan. 2023
• But fraud is still fraud, and criminal fraudsters still go to prison.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2023
• The problem: That’s where fraudsters try to sneak in their brand-name counterfeits.
  — Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2019
• To thwart fraudsters, the IRS tool locks out people who try multiple times a day.
  — Author: Heather Long, Michelle Singletary, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2020
• The fraudsters can get away with this, at least for a while, because our public records and court system are open to the public.
  — Gary Singer, Sun Sentinel, 16 Mar. 2023
• The fraudster is typing words into a program that then reads them.
  — Stacy Cowley, New York Times, 29 June 2023
• The results were full of posts on strange sites accusing him of being a thief, a fraudster and a pedophile.
  — New York Times, 30 Jan. 2021
• The fraudster then emailed the woman again, saying that his other niece saw the gift card and became jealous.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 20 Jan. 2023
• In total, the fraudster drained about $1,200 from the Chase account and transferred all the money to a PayPal account.
  — David Lazarus, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2022
• Click through to see how long some of the biggest U.S. fraudsters have served — or are currently serving — in prison.
  — Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 11 July 2024
• The student, who lives on Tressel Street, said the hacker/fraudster forced him to record two videos supporting the scheme.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 9 Dec. 2021
• In films, a fraudster — someone who slips in and out quickly and flies under the radar — acts alone, or perhaps with one close friend.
  — Itay Levy, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2021
• Tech support scams Also beware tech support scams, in which fraudsters mimic a school computer technician.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 2 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 28 Sep 2024