(1) Having already seen off the Winklevoss twins who claimed he stole the idea for Facebook from them , Zuckerberg now faces a convicted fraudster who says he has a contract giving him 84% of the social network.
(2) Their story involves a fraudster who posed as their builder, set up a copycat email address and even managed to mock up an incredibly realistic fake invoice.
(3) You’re practically handing your personal information over to a fraudster,” says John Cannon, fraud and ID director at credit report provider Noddle.
(4) Part of the growth is coming as fraudsters are moving away from a small number of hot spot locations to a much wider footprint.” In the past the north-west – particularly Manchester – had been the focal point for the fraudulent claims but partly as a result of the number of successful prosecutions there, fraudsters have now moved on.
(5) Michael Brown, who gave the party £2.4m in 2005, was one of Britain's most wanted fraudsters.
(6) The financial details are allegedly being bought by fraudsters and cold-calling firms.
(7) Sylvia Kneller of Farnham, Surrey, first started responding to the fraudsters when she was 20 years old and says she became "a believer", convinced she would one day win a fortune.
(8) Every magistrate hears idiotic excuses from stupid criminals, but this is the DWP's unsubtle nudge that all claimants are fraudsters beneath the skin.
(9) Frances Knox, 44, from Hertfordshire, has resolved to change her passwords every month after she had her Skype account maliciously taken over by fraudsters on 21 December.
(10) While Ellard was wondering why his mobile wasn’t working at his Hertford home last month, fraudsters were calling O2 pretending to be him to report it stolen.
(11) • Be careful what personal details you share on social media since fraudsters can use these to anticipate likely answers to security questions.
(12) Anyway, back to these fraudsters, who are the least costly element of a leaky system, but nevertheless transfix the political imagination as though they were masterminds of cunning and audacity, whose long game were to destroy the fabric of society altogether.
(13) John Ellard, managing director of a small internet service provider, has had his Nationwide current account emptied of £6,000 after fraudsters apparently took over his O2 mobile account, switched his number to a new Apple handset, and then used it to make a series of fraudulent purchases.
(14) EE said it has recordings of two calls where the fraudster failed security.
(15) The fraudster himself predicted the bank would one day face a big fine over their relationship.
(16) Electronic fraudsters will replace the stocking and shotgun robbers of the past.
(17) However, victims say it takes much longer to get a response from the company when things go wrong, and have questioned whether the speed of approvals and the way loans are set up make it a soft target for fraudsters.
(18) Last week it emerged that fraudsters and scam operators had begun cold-calling possible retirees in a bid to grab some of the billions of pounds that Britons currently invest in annuities.
(19) Bernie Madoff , fraudster The names of Bernie Madoff and of MSI (Madoff Securities International), the London end of his financial operation, are among the most unexpected entries in Kleinwort Benson's Jersey records.
(20) The trial takes place in the same courthouse where alleged fraudster and billionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky, former boss of the Yukos oil company and Putin's political enemy, was tried.
Humbug
Definition:
(v. t.) To deceive; to impose; to cajole; to hoax.
(n.) An imposition under fair pretenses; something contrived in order to deceive and mislead; a trick by cajolery; a hoax.
(n.) A spirit of deception; cajolery; trickishness.
(n.) One who deceives or misleads; a deceitful or trickish fellow; an impostor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Vice, folly and humbug – it is the point of satire really.
(2) What more timely image could there be for his departure than a Christmas costume and a prescience for all the humbug that will inevitably attend his death.
(3) Shortly after, they began to produce confectioneries such as chocolate limes, humbugs and caramels.
(4) Gary McNair: War on Christmas Anyone who has ever felt like saying “Bah, humbug!” to the John Lewis ad will find a kindred spirit in Gary McNair, playing a Santa working in a down-at-heel Christmas grotto who decides to investigate what Christmas means if you are poor.
(5) But, you may exclaim, what humbug for countries that invaded Iraq to excoriate others for violating sovereignty.
(6) Counties lose their names, trains lose their livery, ginger snaps lose their flavour and mint humbugs their sharp corners ... under my derationalisation programme, Yorkshire would get back its Ridings, the red telephone box would be a preserved species, there would be Pullman cars called Edna, a teashop in every high street and a proper card index in the public library."
(7) Accusing his opponents of "the most blatant hypocrisy in pretending they have changed to a modern, enlightened party", Lord Lester said: "What they have done is seek to destroy the central purpose of the bill under the guise of giving rights to others and it's complete humbug done for electoral purposes."
(8) It has not reached the pitch of disintegration at which humbug can be dropped."
(9) Lymphocystis disease is reported for the first time from the white-tailed damselfish, Dascyllus aruanus, and the black-tailed humbug, Dascyllus melanurus.
(10) I thought of the tourist scrums pushing each other off the pavements, jostling for souvenir humbugs and wind-up Beefeaters.
(11) Typical young man's title, you see, typical piece of that sort of humbugging, canting rhetoric, which young men - bless their hearts - specialise in.
(12) We probably all know a few pre-Games humbug-criers – shouting themselves hoarse in stadiums or rapt and sometimes in tears in front of the TV – who have looked like Scrooge on Christmas morning in the last few weeks.
(13) So the return of WTPS may serve to revive the genre, the old ghost donning its armour to do battle once more with humbug and pomposity.
(14) It was a strange experience to hear this paragon of logic, sceptical of all humbug trotting out stories that normally he would have scoffed at.
(15) It's enough to put you off shopping altogether, and has done for Nicole Slavin who is "bah humbug about Christmas , partly because of the commercialisation and the sheer social pressure to buy people things".
(16) For Labour, with the taste of Suez still in their mouths, Hugh Gaitskell described this as "the worst humbug and hypocrisy."
(17) Their latest, Humbug , recorded in the Californian desert with Josh Homme, reveals a more mature, assured band.