fraudmeister

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English

Etymology

From fraud +‎ -meister.

Noun

fraudmeister (plural fraudmeisters)

  1. A person who commits fraud for profit.
    • 2007, Gary Weiss, Wall Street Versus America: A Muckraking Look at the Thieves, Fakers, and Charlatans Who Are Ripping You Off, Penguin, →ISBN, page 46:
      This Canadian fraudmeister moved to Europe after being nabbed in a mining-stock scam in Ontario.
    • 2008, Gary Indiana, Utopia's Debris: Selected Essays, Basic Books, →ISBN, page 12:
      It was quite forgotten by the candidates and the press that the energy crisis was caused by deregulation and the leasing of the state's electricity to Enron and other now-convicted Texas fraudmeisters, []
    • 2008, The Canadian Journal of Cardiology, Volume 24, Issues 7-12, page 611:
      Today, we are dealing with a new breed of potentially dangerous pests: the television and Web fraudmeisters who flog 'herbal remedies' and alternative medicines as cure-alls for almost every disease known to humankind.

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