How to Use fraudster in a Sentence

fraudster

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  • 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

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