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fraudster

British  
/ ˈfrɔːdstə /

noun

  1. a swindler

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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In the case of convicted FTX fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried, federal prosecutors obtained his top lieutenant’s journal and her frequently updated list called “Things Sam Is Freaking Out About.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026

The problem of prisoners being accidentally released came into sharp focus last autumn when it emerged that HMP Wandsworth had wrongly freed a convicted sex offender and a fraudster.

From BBC • Feb. 23, 2026

Malaysian conservative influencer Ian Miles Cheong called Bannon “a fraudster of the highest order.”

From Salon • Feb. 9, 2026

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

From MarketWatch • Dec. 23, 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

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