Example Sentences

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As cybercrime continues to soar, young people and crypto investors are being hit harder, and more scammers are impersonating government officials.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

Or rather, that they have embarked on these relationships mainly to advertise them: They are impersonating themselves.

From New York Times • Jun. 29, 2023

Hassan wrote to a letter Friday asking for greater fraud prevention efforts, including educating people about scammers who are impersonating the IRS.

From Washington Times • Apr. 26, 2020

And yet there is something disconcerting about our conversation; a sense that we are impersonating intimacy.

From The Guardian • Apr. 16, 2017

"That you are impersonating a man whose property you have stolen."

From A Desperate Voyage by Knight, Edward Frederick