Quotes About Fraud

Owning and maintaining a fraud had a way of gradually demoralizing one.

The hallmark of the fraudulent is that it becomes what you would like it to be.

Art, like theology, a packaged fraud.

However, he had been burned. The capsules were not barbiturates, as represented. They were some kind of kinky psychedelics, of a type he had never dropped before, probably a mixture, and new on the market. Instead of quietly suffocating, Charles Freck began to hallucinate. Well, he thought philosophically, this is the story of my life. Always ripped off. He had to face the fact—

isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all the advertising men who create it?

The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

Donde haya una cosa verdadera o útil, con seguridad habrá una falsificación.

Any society which enjoins its members to adhere to both of these (politeness and truth) is a fraud.

When there is a true or useful thing, there is sure to be a counterfeit.

La sociedad civil solidaria y organizada que tanto se jactó de su emergencia con los sismos es la misma que luego bajó las manos ante el fraude electoral de 1988, la misma que creyó y avaló la construcción de la efímera quimera salinista, la misma que en nuestros días ejerce sus labores democráticos como si se tratara de imperativos neuróticos. ¿Negamos los sismos porque los vinculamos con esta penosa actualidad social y política?

I contend that there really are no more con men. There's no need for con men anymore. There's no need for the very sophisticated, suave guy, the well-dressed guy. Today, you steal with the computer from thousands of miles away - from China, from Libya, from Hong Kong. Your victim's never going to see you, so there's no need to be any of that.

Perhaps one day we'll be able to identify and block not just scams but the scammers themselves - before they even target their first victim.

The reason con artists get away with what they get away with is, their victims are ashamed of their own blindness and their own gullibility, and they tend to just quietly go away.

Three-card monte is one of the most persistent and effective cons in history. The games still pop up along city streets. But we tend to dismiss the victims as rubes.

I saw firsthand the toll that fraud can take on the victims and their families.

Bad news: Complainers are rewarded for complaining. Indicative of the victim culture in which we live, people have not only come to expect something for nothing, but are then rewarded for how loudly they can ventilate their sense of having been victims of fraud.

I fool you. I fool everyone.

When savage nations are first visited by the civilized, they evince the greatest eagerness to obtain iron, as soon as they have come to know the uses of it, while the Christians who go amongst them, manifest a still greater desire for the possession of gold. To accomplish these mutual ends, the savages resort to cunning, pilfering, and bartering, and their more enlightened brethren to deception, violence, and fraud.

Kit Darling has become a celebrity. An underdog's hero. Everyone is rooting for her." "Charge her with what?" asks Ben. "Fraud? Extortion? Obstruction of justice? Staging a false scene—isn't that a criminal offense?" Renata says, "Usually a false scene relates to falsifying evidence in order to obscure or obfuscate a real homicide investigation.

Her mom could barely turn on her laptop without getting six viruses or wiring half her retirement money to a Nigerian prince

Congress is where the liars and thieves meet.

It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our voting process vulnerable to fraud and allows legal votes to be cancelled out by illegally cast ballots.

All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.

Quackery gives birth to nothing; gives death to all things.