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fraud
If you suspect a fraud you should contact the police immediately. There has been a fraud with your credit card.
You commit a fraud when you deliberately try to deceive a person or an institution.
An example of fraud is when a person promises you that you can make a lot of money by investing with him, but then just takes your money and disappears.
fraudster, fraudulent
This system provides a nationwide police accident and incident reports service in the United States used by carriers to improve recordkeeping and to reduce fraud
Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the cardinal virtues.
It has been said that a man at ten is an animal, at twenty a lunatic, at thirty a failure, at forty a fraud, and at fifty a criminal.
Fraud and deceit abound in these days more than in former times.
Wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain. He was convicted of fraud.
You must prove your allegations of fraud!
fraud getting money by cheating people
This latest episode in the fraud scandal has shocked a lot of people
Combating fraud is also very important, and I wish the Commission good luck with this.
Last year saw 997 billion dollars in corporate fraud alone in the United States
2. scam
That scam cost me a lot of money.
an insurance scam
Don't you scam around, guys. This job must be done by tomorrow.
Emails sent by financial institutions are most often scam, they would never contact you via email.
a big marketing scam to sell more
The offer of a "free" vacation to Florida sounds like a scam to me.
I tried to scam IRS and that's why I'm up the river now.
Mark was trying to scam Joan, but she wasn't interested.
I was a little distracted by Jack who was scamming with Joan on the back seat.
My boss is a noid. He thinks that everybody tries to scam him.
Have you heard about the latest scam?
But this is without doubt a scam which requires a European response
The young person was reported to have scammed pensioners from their savings.
Definition a scam is a dishonest and illegal way of getting money from people by cheating them
No scam is too outrageous.
3. white collars crimes
4. swindle
The company swindled money out of millions of people.
Con artists take advantage of the credulity of inexperienced investors and swindle them out of their money.