How to Use fraudster in a Sentence

fraudster

noun

• They are presented like modern mug shots of fraudsters caught in the act.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2018
• Last year was the best year ever for fraudsters, with more victims and more money stolen.
  — NBC News, 21 Feb. 2018
• And fraudsters can’t access credit profiles that are frozen.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2024
• This both protects your data and prevents fraudsters from opening any debt in your name.
  — Cicely Jones, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024
• Your account could have to be closed to prevent fraudsters from gaining access.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 21 Feb. 2018
• If credentials are shared with the fraudster for other online accounts, the password for each should be immediately changed.
  — Cheryl Winokur Munk, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2024
• Investigators haven't yet determined how the fraudsters obtained her bank information or forged the checks.
  — Teresa Dixon Murray, cleveland.com, 18 Feb. 2018
• The fraudsters use a range of ploys to bait targets, including potential tax refunds and requests for updated personal information.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 23 Feb. 2018
• Diviners appear regularly in television dramas, sometimes as fraudsters but often to foreshadow a plot twist.
  — The Economist, 24 Feb. 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
• To avoid fraudster, the best advice boils down to this: Pay inside.
  — Joshua Hafner, ajc, 3 July 2018
• 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 change lessens the chance that fraudsters would be able to intercept and reuse a card number.
  — Annamaria Andriotis, WSJ, 24 May 2018
• 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
• Then the consumer called the fraudster back and read him the serial numbers for the MoneyPak card.
  — charlotteobserver, 16 May 2018
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024