fraudmeister

plural fraudmeisters

1. A person who commits fraud for profit.

   This Canadian fraudmeister moved to Europe after being nabbed in a mining-stock scam in Ontario.

   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

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   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, Gary Indiana, Utopia's Debris: Selected Essays, Basic Books, →ISBN, page 12

   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.

   2008, The Canadian Journal of Cardiology, Volume 24, Issues 7-12, page 611

   Synonyms: fraudster