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
The fraudsters often contact victims out of nowhere — perhaps via text, social media or a dating app — to try to develop relationships and gain trust before pitching investment opportunities that supposedly yield high returns, often in virtual assets such as cryptocurrency, experts said.
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Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 15 Mar. 2025
Just as companies like Visa and Mastercard are selling their antifraud expertise to others, so too are fraudsters selling their new schemes to other fraudsters.
—Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2025
These powerful tools are increasingly accessible to fraudsters who use them to create sophisticated scams that are harder than ever to detect.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, FOXNews.com, 29 Mar. 2025
Between January 2013 and May 2018, fraudsters manipulated direct deposit information to divert $33.5 million in benefits from 20,878 recipients, according to audits by the SSA's Office of the Inspector General.
—Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2025
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Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 15 Mar. 2025
Just as companies like Visa and Mastercard are selling their antifraud expertise to others, so too are fraudsters selling their new schemes to other fraudsters.
—Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2025
These powerful tools are increasingly accessible to fraudsters who use them to create sophisticated scams that are harder than ever to detect.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, FOXNews.com, 29 Mar. 2025
Between January 2013 and May 2018, fraudsters manipulated direct deposit information to divert $33.5 million in benefits from 20,878 recipients, according to audits by the SSA's Office of the Inspector General.
—Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fraudster
Noun
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As faux-fur weather makes way for random pockets of sun and bursts of rain, Zendaya has pieced together the sartorial cheat code for transitional dressing.—
Emily Tannenbaum,
Glamour,
28 Mar. 2025
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The downside, of course, is the world now knows their cheat code.—
Mark Zeigler,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 Mar. 2025
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In contrast, anonymous digital cash is a tax dodger’s dream.—
David G.W. Birch,
Forbes,
14 Mar. 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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Saya de Malha Bank offers safe haven to an unprecedented biodiversity of seagrass habitats for turtles and breeding grounds for sharks, humpback and blue whales.—
Christian Orozco,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Mar. 2025
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This elusive shark, previously known only from fish markets, was recorded at depths of over 1,700 feet.—
Stories by Real-Time news team, with AI summarization,
Miami Herald,
28 Mar. 2025
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“Fraudster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fraudster. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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