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Quotes About Fraud

Everything Amelia had posted online had been a lie, yes. The relatable, inspirational, authentic girl had been a fraud all along. Josh had been too swept up in his own narrative to realize it had been Mignon's spirit she was mirroring back to him.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
we lose tens of billions of dollars to Medicare and Medicaid fraud every year. This is something we have not been able to control, either because we don't care very much and view other issues as much more important, or because we are incompetent
~ Ben Carson
If we are ever going to have adequate funding for health care and other major line items in our budget, however, we have to put an end to waste and fraud throughout the government, and we must create a friendly climate for economic growth.
~ Ben Carson
The Democratic Party does not want anybody to have a photo ID because that would have a very negative impact on cheating! If you require a photo ID, that pretty much shuts out cheating. Well, it doesn't shut it out. It just makes it harder, and that's why they don't want it.
~ Rush Limbaugh
Only a firm government that acts tough on fraudsters can send the right signals to the country.
~ N. Chandrababu Naidu
If you haven't signed anything, you cant be ripped off.
~ Dave Sim
I counterfeited Mark Kostabi's artworks. During the eighties, Mark didn't paint his own paintings. Instead, he had other artists painting them, and he just added his signature. So what I did was to use some of the same painters, and signed his name myself.
~ Andy Behrman
People have found very significant and simple ways to cheat their employer and get money out of their employers, and many companies lack good internal controls.
~ Frank Abagnale
American history has never seen a party so unified in perpetuating a massive fraud. This isn't the action of a rogue president like Watergate but a deliberate, calculated decision for a major governing party of the most powerful nation in the history of the world to join hands and deny what they know is true: that Donald Trump is a threat to the country.
~ Stuart Stevens
Trump will always put himself before anyone and any value and that a lifetime of scams, frauds, scandals, and lies has proven that whoever associates with Trump is discredited.
~ Stuart Stevens
As a way of trying to justify voter-suppression steps, the Republican Party has invested heavily in the myth of voter fraud. The fraud is trying to convince the public there is voter fraud of any significance. I've worked in campaigns since 1978, and I don't know of a single race in which illegal voters were remotely a factor.
~ Stuart Stevens
American history has never seen a party so unified in perpetuating a massive fraud. This isn't the action of a rogue president like Watergate but a deliberate, calculated decision for a major governing party of the most powerful nation in the history of the world to join hands and deny what they know is true: that Donald Trump is a threat to the country. At
~ Stuart Stevens
I should have reminded myself that people willing to cheat a little bit are generally dishonest throughout.
~ Sue Grafton
What makes these cases so hard to prosecute is the victims don't want to believe they've been deceived. The victims all become dependent on the crook who's cheating them.
~ Sue Grafton
He must be really smart. That must make you proud. I certainly couldn't design a website and entice people to sign up for a cattle-drive vacation." Zane's ever-so-perfect mouth tightened. "He lied, stole and committed fraud. Pride doesn't much enter into it for me." Phoebe hunched down in her seat. "If you're going to put it like that," she mumbled and turned her attention to the scenery.
~ Susan Mallery
the more apparatus a magician carries about with him — coloured powders, stuffed cats, magical hats and so forth — the greater the fraud you will eventually discover him to be!
~ Susanna Clarke
But then she often felt like this lately. The world seemed full of transparent frauds that only she could see through. She was forever shouting from the hustings of honesty, though if any honesty were directed at her she ran from it horrified. And she knew it, laughed at herself for it, wretchedly. She was all to pieces.
~ Jude Morgan
I mistrust mountebanks—especially of the female variety.
~ Judith Merkle Riley
There is a cheat inside everyone.
~ Sudha Kongara
Those who perpetrate fraud against our financial institutions will be met with the full force of law enforcement.
~ Loretta Lynch
I'm a fake intellectual.
~ Adam Brody
It can be hard to say if someone has a deliberate intent to defraud or if they are just really, really bad at their business. But even if people are unpublishable, it doesn't mean they should be ripped off.
~ Victoria Strauss
To me, the Internet is a big scam.
~ Ry Cooder
The Internet can be used to hurt many people.
~ Frank Abagnale