fraud:
(also ‘fraudster‘; plural: ‘frauds‘ — for the right pronunciation of this word, please click here)
members of a gang of cyber frauds (staff of a call centre, Pune, India accused of stealing $ 426,000 from customers of a bank)
a cheat;
an impostor;
a person who pretends to be someone else (using false identity) in order to cheat/deceive others to gain something, such as a job, a loan from a bank, some secret information or money,
an ebay fraud (Gary Bellchamers, UK & Thailand, accused of e-bay fraud of selling millions worth fake golf clubs online)
When Mitchell found out that his new friend and room-mate was a fraud, pretending to be a software engineer but actually a high school drop out, he immediately informed all his other friends who sent him away by force.
It is not uncommon to see a fraud or two in our daily news — financial frauds, political frauds, sports frauds and every other frauds imaginable!
The most daring frauds are those who pretend to be anti-corruption undercover police officers and demand bribes from corrupt police officers, including high level police officers!!
