How to Use fraudster in a Sentence

fraudster

noun
  • But the fraudsters zig-zagged again.
    — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2025
  • The age group is a prime target for fraudsters.
    — Sarah Agostino, CNBC, 15 May 2026
  • The fraudsters then filed an eviction case against him.
    — Donovan McCarty, The Conversation, 22 June 2026
  • Some fraudsters are so smooth even savvy customers have been fooled.
    — Frank Witsil, Freep.com, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Actions must be put in place so fraudsters are held to account.
    — Stanley S. Litow, New York Daily News, 13 Apr. 2025
  • But fraud is still fraud, and criminal fraudsters still go to prison.
    — James Freeman, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2023
  • For the fraudsters, of course, the scheme was nothing more than a way to make money.
    — Jordan Michael Smith, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The scams are odd — but fraudsters can sound convincing.
    — Susan Tompor, Freep.com, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The scams are odd — but fraudsters can sound convincing.
    — Susan Tompor, USA Today, 8 Oct. 2025
  • And the fraudster is now logged into the portal as the consumer.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 30 June 2022
  • The fraudster is typing words into a program that then reads them.
    — Stacy Cowley, New York Times, 29 June 2023
  • They are presented like modern mug shots of fraudsters caught in the act.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2018
  • Billions of tax dollars meant to help people have been lost to fraudsters.
    — Conor Wight, CBS News, 1 Jan. 2026
  • Why probate scams work Grief is a beacon for fraudsters.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2025
  • In other words, fraudsters and hackers are pulling out all the stops to defraud you.
    — Marc Saltzman, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2020
  • That means a dedicated fraudster would have to spam a ton of artists with a ton of fake songs.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Last year was the best year ever for fraudsters, with more victims and more money stolen.
    — NBC News, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Imagine a slice of Swiss cheese, with random holes where a fraudster can get through.
    — Kaleigh Rogers, ABC News, 19 Apr. 2024
  • The fraudster’s bank had frozen the account and was able to return it to the city’s account.
    — David Clarey, jsonline.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • And fraudsters have been running rampant all over the country.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Predators who abused women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain.
    — ABC News, 28 July 2024
  • Dewey says that the fraudsters opened the AXS account, not her.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 9 May 2024
  • None has fascinated me as much as fraudsters.
    — Snigdha Poonam, The Dial, 28 Oct. 2025
  • In retail, the risk goes up considerably when fraudsters get added to the mix.
    — Adriana Lee, WWD, 20 Oct. 2024
  • The change lessens the chance that fraudsters would be able to intercept and reuse a card number.
    — Annamaria Andriotis, WSJ, 24 May 2018
  • The victim, who was in her late 50s, then helped push the brash young fraudster onto a new path.
    — Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024
  • In some cases, the fraudsters knew the name of the grandchild, Foley said.
    — Melissa Chan, NBC news, 12 Aug. 2025
  • In most of these cases, the fraudsters opened bank accounts and credit cards in the inmates’ names.
    — Kevin Collier, NBC news, 12 May 2025
  • Even as colleges have learned more about the fraudsters, keeping them out has proven challenging.
    — Edsource, Oc Register, 5 Sep. 2025
  • 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

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