as in cheat
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
Overall, Americans lost 25% more money last year to fraudsters than in 2023.
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Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2025
Many fraudsters gain access by first hacking your email, which can give them entry to password-reset links and sensitive notifications.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, FOXNews.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Between January 2013 and May 2018, fraudsters manipulated direct deposit information to divert $33.5 million in benefits from 20,878 recipients, the SSA's Office of the Inspector General said in 2023.
—Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 2025
Investigators have linked the fraudster to 237 victims, ranging in age from 24 to 84, and spread across 31 states as well as Washington, D.C., and the countries of Malaysia and his native Indonesia, prosecutors said.
—Michael Loria, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2025
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Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2025
Many fraudsters gain access by first hacking your email, which can give them entry to password-reset links and sensitive notifications.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, FOXNews.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Between January 2013 and May 2018, fraudsters manipulated direct deposit information to divert $33.5 million in benefits from 20,878 recipients, the SSA's Office of the Inspector General said in 2023.
—Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 2025
Investigators have linked the fraudster to 237 victims, ranging in age from 24 to 84, and spread across 31 states as well as Washington, D.C., and the countries of Malaysia and his native Indonesia, prosecutors said.
—Michael Loria, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fraudster
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To his supporters, the bluff and feints were all tactics of a master negotiator taking on the world’s trade cheats.—
Laurent Belsie,
Christian Science Monitor,
11 Apr. 2025
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In addition, in the Fall of 2024 the IRS-CI increased its efforts against wealthy tax cheats with actions against 1,600 taxpayers earning more than a million dollars a year which by July of 2024 had already brought in $1 billion in collections.—
Steve Weisman,
Forbes.com,
5 Apr. 2025
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The layoffs of roughly 7,000 Internal Revenue Service probationary workers beginning this week probably mean the end of the agency’s plan to go after high-wealth tax dodgers and could spell disaster for revenue collection, experts say.—
Fatima Hussein,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Feb. 2025
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The baseball world will look back at this era of dodger baseball 30 years from now and have nothing but fond memories and positive things to say about it.—
Fabian Ardaya,
The Athletic,
23 Jan. 2025
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To see how small businesses are responding, Forbes reached out to 10 Shark Tank entrepreneurs across multiple industries, along with each of their celebrity sharks.—
Danielle Chemtob,
Forbes.com,
28 Apr. 2025
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Steve is out to find the jaguar shark who killed his partner, but Klaus finds his own enemy in a Zissou fan (Owen Wilson) who believes the undersea documentarian is his dad. 10.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
28 Apr. 2025
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“Fraudster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fraudster. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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