Quotes About Fraud

I'm tired of good people getting ripped off by diet products that don't work!

If I say things like I'm going to erase someone's Social Security number, we all know I clearly don't work at the Social Security office.

WikiLeaks is exposing our government officials for the frauds that they are. They also show us how governments work together to lie to their citizens when they are waging war.

In Afghanistan, the viceroy approach would reduce rampant fraud by focusing spending on initiatives that further the central strategy, rather than handing cash to every outstretched hand from a U.S. system bereft of institutional memory.

Straw purchasing is illegal.

The giant fraud that is Britain's education system strides ever onwards, messing up many more lives than it improves.

Unfortunately cybercrime is the crime of our generation.

The constant drip drop of fraudulent activities coming out of Wells Fargo is absolutely outrageous.

Legitimate institutions historically have been defenseless in the face of outright fraud.

A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

The newspapers say that this ripping off the four billion or so of Tribal royalty money has been going on for more than fifty years. And they're quoting the government bean counters. Right? I can't see much hope of me finding anything new.

Sometimes, small minds seem to take the day. Election fraud. A migratory plague. Less and less surprises us as odd.

There are plenty of other ways to get money, including chance, speculation, marriage, inheritance, theft, extortion, fraud, monopoly, graft, lobbying, counterfeiting, and prospecting. Most of the greatest fortunes have probably involved several of these.

This is what is known as perspective, and it is a swindle.

Many studies estimate that only about 10 or at most 20 percent of aid ever reaches its target. There are dozens of ongoing fraud investigations into charges of UN and local officials siphoning off aid money. But most of the waste resulting from foreign aid is not fraud, just incompetence or even worse: simply business as usual for aid organizations.

It was a good trick, only it didn't work. In

I now inhabit a life I don't deserve, but we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon.

But you can gift wrap a piece of shit and it's still a piece of shit.

My whole life I've been a fraud. I'm not exaggerating. Pretty much all I've ever done all the time is try to create a certain impression of me in other people. Mostly to be liked or admired. It's a little more complicated than that, maybe. But when you come right down to it it's to be liked, loved. Admired, approved of, applauded, whatever. You get the idea.

I balked at trying antidepressants, I just couldn't see myself taking pills to try to be less of a fraud.

The fraud part of me was always there, just as a puzzle piece, objectively speaking, is a true piece of the puzzle even before you see how it fits.

Recursive metafiction worships the narrative consciousness, makes "it" the subject of the text. Minimalism's even worse, emptier, because it's a fraud: it eschews not only self-reference but any narrative personality at all, tries to pretend there "is" no narrative consciousness in its text. This is so fucking American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it. -Interview with Larry McCaffery (1993)

My whole life I've been a fraud. I'm not exaggerating. Pretty much all I've ever done all the time is try to create a certain impression of me in other people. Mostly to be liked or admired. It's a little more complicated than that, maybe. But when you come right down to it it's to be liked, loved. Admired, approved of, applauded, whatever. You get the idea.