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fraudster

British  
/ ˈfrɔːdstə /

noun

  1. a swindler

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After losing thousands of pounds in a scam, one woman has described how she flew across the UK in an attempt to find the fraudster.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026

Then, at the age of 54, Allen Stanford, the now-convicted fraudster and his Ponzi scheme, happened.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 23, 2025

The fraudster narrative depicted by “Anonymous” is to her mind a “horrible manifestation of the English class system.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025

Among other things, he has called you a fraudster and a failed political has-been, but you’re not responding in kind.

From Slate • Oct. 15, 2025

The Chicago Computer Fraud and Abuse Task Force, however, had decided to prosecute Neidorf as a fraudster.

From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Sterling, Bruce