fraudster
/ˈfɹɔːdstə/US/ˈfɹɔdstɚ/
fraudster noun: a person who carries out fraud; a swindler.
Noun
fraudster (plural fraudsters)
- A person who carries out fraud; a swindler.
- With a few exceptions, all those changes were published in the Ontario Gazette, a little-read compendium of government business that comes out every week. The province requires this by law, as do most Canadian jurisdictions, nominally to thwart fraudsters and deadbeats.2016 Eric Andrew-Gee Why and how Ontarians change their names in the 21st century The Globe and Mail
- CPS MerseyCheshire welcomes the jailing of Helen Dove who conned her friend into giving up her job for a dream post that never existed. Kimberley McDonnell lost around £50,000 because of the fraudster.2020 January 29, “Woman jailed for conning her friend into giving up her job for a dream post that never existed”, in CPS Mersey-Cheshire, London: Crown Prosecution Service, retrieved 30 Jan 2020
fraudster meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Indonesian
fraudster in Tamil
- fraudster
- டுபாக்கூர் ṭupākkūr
fraudster in Urdu
- fraudster, swindler, cheater
- دغا باز dağā-bāz
fraudster in Malayalam
- a person who practices fraud
- ചതിയൻ catiyaṉ, വഞ്ചകൻ vañcakaṉ
fraudster in Indonesian
- a person who practices fraud
- penipu
Examples of fraudster in a sentence
- This guy is a fraudster. I need to stop the cheque I wrote him.
- The fraudsters convincingly spoofed a Microsoft webpage and then invited their victims to click various links found there.
- The fraudster misrepresented himself as a lawyer.
Synonyms of fraudster
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Forms of fraudster
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Origin of fraudster
From fraud + -ster.
Words formed from fraudster
Questions about fraudster
- What does fraudster mean?
- Fraudster means a person who carries out fraud; a swindler.
- What is fraudster in Tamil?
- Fraudster in Tamil is டுபாக்கூர் (ṭupākkūr). See Fraudster meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is fraudster?
- Fraudster is a noun.
- How do you pronounce fraudster?
- Fraudster is pronounced /ˈfɹɔdstɚ/ (US).
- What is the plural of fraudster?
- The plural of fraudster is fraudsters.
Words near fraudster in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: fraudster (page history and authors); டுபாக்கூர் (Tamil) (page history and authors); دغا باز (Urdu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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