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 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
  • 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
  • Who better to drag others into the fraud than a friendly face?
    Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Netanyahu also faces a litany of corruption charges on bribery, fraud and breach of trust.
    Paul Goldman, NBC News, 16 July 2023
  • Holmes was sentenced on four counts of fraud in November 2022.
    J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 30 May 2023
  • The mail fraud charge carries a penalty of up to 20 years in prison, prosecutors said.
    Antonio Planas, NBC News, 26 Apr. 2024
  • Financial scams and fraud came in fourth place (53% very concerned).
    Judith Graham, CNN, 18 June 2024
  • Trump didn’t go to court last year when his company was convicted of tax fraud.
    Michael R. Sisak, Fortune, 16 Dec. 2023
  • He has been charged in multiple other cases and is already serving a prison sentence of almost six years after he was convicted of fraud in 2022.
    Jennifer Jett, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2024
  • In the exceedingly rare cases where fraud is attempted, it is caught and prosecuted.
    David Becker, CBS News, 20 Nov. 2024

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