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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
fraudster
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ First, her brother is self-evidently a petty fraudster better off behind bars.
▪ The success of the fraudster often hinges on the ability to tell a convincing story.
▪ Yesterday the school defended its decision to allow a convicted fraudster to lecture students.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fraudster

"one who practices fraud," 1975, from fraud + -ster. Earlier words were fraud (1850); fraudsman (1610s); frauditor (1550s).

Wiktionary
fraudster

n. a person who practices fraud; a swindler

Usage examples of "fraudster".

Of course, I accept as natural born criminal, habitual liar, fraudster and totally untrustworthy perverted genius.

It's a sex thing this, got to be, so the fraudsters and con merchants have gone to the back of the queue.

And when he'd found out that he had been a bigamist and a fraudster he had liked him even less.

Problem was, he needed what the fraudster had called "the startup," meaning some cash.

Wood, a former guerilla in the Mexican War who'd won a reputation busting contractor fraudsters for the War Department during the Civil War.

The same professional fraudsters do it over and over, Thackeray tells me, they hide behind dense onion-shells of fake companies.

They were a new class of human being, something past charlatan, something past fraudster or hustler, something without real precedent, something past history, something past identity.

As a class, however, they are all sorely harassed by fraudsters, phone phreaks, and computer hackers, and they all maintain computer-security experts.