Fraud in a sentence as a noun

Will this "legalize fraud," as suggested in this piece?

A simple cost of doing business...The key take-away is: no one at Citi went to jail for fraud.

Instances of fraud via card duplication are rare, so it's usually not worth the hassle.

They want professional sellers to sell from their site, people who are used to dealing with chargebacks, etc, and can foot the bill when it comes to chargebacks/fraud.

The most unfortunate thing about this whole situation is that it was poor Chad himself who ended up discovering and shutting down the fraudsters.

They only want people who don't care about buyer reputation, and have deep enough pockets and the expectation that chargebacks and fraud will occur.

It's only fraud if he does not actually intend to reside there, the motivation behind that intent is completely irrelevant.

We don't like having to decline hundreds of dollars of revenue either, but we have the experience of losing hundreds of millions to fraud and know that some revenue just isn't worth the risk.

Made $80mm in commissions running a drug trafficking network, paying hundreds of thousands to have people executed, mail fraud, money laundering, conspiracy....

Barack Obama will strengthen whistleblower laws to protect federal workers who expose waste, fraud, and abuse of authority in government.

He recently went on some kind of insane power trip, completely disregarding the needs of his customers, putting me on unpaid leave for ... reporting an incident of fraud to a bank.

~Protect Whistleblowers: Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity and willing to speak out. Such acts of courage and patriotism, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, should be encouraged rather than stifled.

There are all kinds of startup ventures that never manage to bring their development efforts to completion because of unforeseen technical issues, bad market conditions, lack of funds, and all sorts of other reasons having nothing to do with fraud or other actionable wrongdoing.

What if Becquerel put his photographic plate and uranium rock in a drawer, saw anomalous results, and did not report on them on fear that perhaps somehow the plates were exposed in some other manner?The point is that barring gross negligence or fraud, scientists should be encouraged to share results that perhaps are inexplicable or against current thinking.

Fraud definitions

noun

intentional deception resulting in injury to another person

noun

a person who makes deceitful pretenses

noun

something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage

See also: fraudulence dupery hoax humbug put-on