How to Use fraudulent in a Sentence

fraudulent

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  • Corrupt leaders were chosen in a fraudulent election.
  • Instructions on how to wire money to the fraudster are frequently included in the fraudulent email sent to the target.
    — Melissa Noel, Essence, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Concerns about fraudulent accounts and misinformation ( which Musk himself has spread ) are not new.
    — Howard Fendrich, Fortune, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Many of the candidates who openly questioned the 2020 election outcome repeated false claims that the election was fraudulent or stolen.
    — Rachel Looker, USA TODAY, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Prosecutors have said the couple submitted fake documents to banks and managed to secure more than $30 million in fraudulent loans.
    — Kate Brumback, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2022
  • That’s in spite of a long history of problems with carbon credits that includes shoddy accounting, fraudulent marketing claims, and human rights abuses.
    — Tim McDonnell, Quartz, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Fairfax County in Virginia had to quash fake school closures tweeted from a fraudulent account during a 2014 winter storm.
    — Stephen Groves, Chicago Tribune, 19 Nov. 2022
  • Schmoke says that claims that the book was fraudulent stung Moore.
    — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 18 July 2023
  • All were charged with theft using a fraudulent card, a felony.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Perhaps the clearest sign the image is fraudulent is the message’s length.
    — Nate Trela, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Officials charged the six suspects with at least 50 fraudulent rentals and thefts.
    — Garfield Hylton, Orlando Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2023
  • As further proof of the scam, her credit card statement showed what appeared to be $2,000 in fraudulent charges.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 18 June 2024
  • But the researchers said there was no reason to believe the final vote totals in five key states were fraudulent.
    — Josh Dawsey, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Bug zappers are one of the favorite products of fraudulent seller farms.
    — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 28 Mar. 2024
  • That’s all the information a thief needs to create new checks and make fraudulent payments.
    — Liz Weston, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2024
  • No fraudulent charges have yet been reported on the man’s credit card.
    — cleveland, 7 Dec. 2022
  • No money was lost as the transaction was flagged as fraudulent.
    — Graydon Megan, Chicago Tribune, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Knowing how to identify a scam and who is most likely to be duped is the first step in combatting these fraudulent schemes.
    — Amanda Musa, CNN, 12 Oct. 2024
  • The resident notified the IRS that the filing was fraudulent.
    — Graydon Megan, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2023
  • That date was a reference to the year López Obrador came within 0.56% of the vote of winning the presidency and denounced his loss as fraudulent.
    — Time, 28 Nov. 2022
  • They were accused of conspiring to defraud Atlanta-area banks out of more than $30 million in fraudulent loans in a scheme that went on for years.
    — Diana Dasrath, NBC News, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The city rejects the vast majority of claims, some of which officials say are fraudulent, but claimants may appeal in court.
    — St. John Barned-Smith, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The warehouse keeper at the time, John Thomson, who was in charge of all loans and pledges but also in league with the five fraudulent directors, hid the company’s books and fled the country.
    — Amy Froide, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2022
  • But the Trump team argued Monday night that the president was not in the position to deceive anyone about whether the election was fraudulent.
    — Perry Stein, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2023
  • But there’s wide agreement in the industry that nurses with fraudulent degrees need to be rooted out.
    — Michael Hill, Sun Sentinel, 1 Mar. 2023
  • If Beard does strike this deal, she will be forced to repay all the proceeds obtained through her fraudulent schemes and surrender any of the assets acquired as a result.
    — Mario Abad, Robb Report, 31 May 2023
  • The department’s woes worsened when a state audit found that at least $10 billion in claims paid by the state were fraudulent (that figure later grew to at least $20 billion).
    — Melanie Mason, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Of course, Trump continues to call mail ballots fraudulent.
    — Abc News, ABC News, 30 Oct. 2024
  • So far, Mancuso’s office said 16 applications submitted by the company have been determined to be fraudulent.
    — Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Noon in the 1800 block of South Bascom Avenue: Someone stole the victim’s credit cards and cell phone and later made several fraudulent charges.
    — Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024

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