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a dishonest person who uses clever means to cheat others out of something of value
an ingenious phishing operation that got him named the year's most inventive online fraudster
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Recent Examples of fraudster
The agency faced criticism both for distributing benefits to fraudsters while also taking a long time to get benefits to certain claimants who lost work in the pandemic.
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Adrienne Roberts, Detroit Free Press, 9 Dec. 2024
Since then, courts across California have warned potential jurors of a much more pervasive scam; fraudsters who call people and pretend to be court employees, then demand payment for failing to appear for jury duty.
—Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 8 Dec. 2024
Fake balance checker scam In this scam, fraudsters set up fake websites or phone services that claim to check the balance of your gift cards.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 27 Nov. 2024
Nasdaq’s latest research suggests losses from financial crime have now reached a staggering $485 billion a year, as fraudsters cash in on digital connectivity and harness new technologies to target their victims.
—David Prosser, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
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Adrienne Roberts, Detroit Free Press, 9 Dec. 2024
Since then, courts across California have warned potential jurors of a much more pervasive scam; fraudsters who call people and pretend to be court employees, then demand payment for failing to appear for jury duty.
—Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 8 Dec. 2024
Fake balance checker scam In this scam, fraudsters set up fake websites or phone services that claim to check the balance of your gift cards.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 27 Nov. 2024
Nasdaq’s latest research suggests losses from financial crime have now reached a staggering $485 billion a year, as fraudsters cash in on digital connectivity and harness new technologies to target their victims.
—David Prosser, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fraudster
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By neglecting to impose a time or monkey limit on the experiment, the infinite monkey theorem essentially contains its own cheat code.Alexander Nazaryan, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025
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Suarez felt like a cheat code in fantasy football that season.The Athletic UK Football Writers, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024
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While the move aimed at keeping counterfeiters and tax dodgers on the back foot appears at odds with the growing popularity of cash-free transactions by consumers and businesses, central bank and finance ministry officials continue to flag the enduring importance of paper money.Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Asia, 3 July 2024
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Indictment details In the indictment, the department’s tax attorneys portrayed Rotta as a perennial tax dodger.Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 22 Mar. 2024
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Taxonomic charts on the walls borrow the aesthetic of science but are populated with terms from the history of art and absurd twists: a bird is labeled with the names of 20th-century avant-garde movements, a shark is juxtaposed with a rolling pin and a cola bottle.Kelly Presutti, ARTnews.com, 10 Jan. 2025
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Unless Jordan got eaten by a shark or something like that, there was no catching him — and even the shark would've probably had a tough time catching him.Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 9 Jan. 2025
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“Fraudster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fraudster. Accessed 15 Jan. 2025.
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