How to Use fraud in a Sentence

fraud

noun

• He was found guilty of bank fraud.
• He was the victim of an elaborate fraud.
• He claimed he was a licensed psychologist, but he turned out to be a fraud.
• The UFO picture was proved to be a fraud.
• This case was possibly the worst case of fraud the UK courts have seen.
  — Susie Violet Ward, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
• The more that fraud thrives, the more that the public loses trust in science.
  — Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 12 July 2024
• The targets of their fraud, of course, are even more global.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 30 Dec. 2024
• And if fraud wasn’t the real reason for those changes, what was?
  — Jay Bookman, CNN, 27 Oct. 2022
• The fraud has since been largely shut down, but those behind it have yet to be named.
  — WIRED, 21 Jan. 2023
• Medicare fraud is one of the most common areas of fraud the statute targets.
  — Gordon Schnell, Fortune, 2 Jan. 2024
• On top of the fraud case, Baines, 33, pleaded guilty to separate gun and drug counts.
  — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 8 Dec. 2022
• About 30%, or $43 billion, of our money was lost to waste, fraud or abuse.
  — Sharyl Attkisson, Baltimore Sun, 7 Feb. 2025
• Read more Map shows states where people are most likely to fall prey to fraud.
  — Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024
• Rudin’s tax fraud scheme caused a total tax loss of more than $19 million.
  — Robert W. Wood, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
• An initial fraud alert is free and will stay on your credit file for at least 90 days.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2024
• Last week, a court ordered him to pay $355 million as a penalty for fraud.
  — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 20 Feb. 2024
• The art market might be a murky place, but stealing is still stealing, and fraud is still fraud.
  — Rosa Lyster, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2024
• Boyle compared Jenkins to a fraud victim who still believes in the scam.
  — Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2023
• There has been no evidence of widespread fraud enough to change the election.
  — WSJ, 16 Jan. 2024
• And some of that fraud is being turbocharged by AI itself.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 17 Oct. 2024
• Well, but all – all the courts said that there was – there was no widespread fraud in the January 6th election.
  — ABC News, 8 Jan. 2023
• Now, amid a start-up shakeout, more frauds have started coming to light.
  — Erin Griffith, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• The group used some of its funds to boost midterm candidates who pushed the lies that Trump won in 2020 and that the voting system is rife with fraud.
  — Ilya Marritz, ProPublica, 20 Apr. 2023
• In real life, many millions have been lost to this common fraud.
  — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 21 June 2024
• Now, though, the state is accusing the clan of fraud, grand theft, and conspiracy.
  — Bychris Morris, Fortune, 27 July 2023
• Each count of mail fraud carries up to 20 years in prison and each count of money laundering up to 10 years.
  — Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2023
• The next year, a New York jury determined much of his empire was built on fraud.
  — Rachel Barber, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2024
• There is still no evidence of widespread mail-in voter fraud, by the way.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 2 May 2024
• Screenshots of the software later appeared on right-wing websites that in turn used it to further promote baseless claims of voter fraud.
  — Alexander Mallin, ABC News, 4 Mar. 2025
• In 2023, researchers revealed that tens of thousands of Android TV boxes being used in homes, schools, and businesses were equipped with secret backdoors that allowed them to be used in a host of cybercrime and online fraud.
  — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 5 Mar. 2025

Last Updated: 20 Mar 2025