'defrauded' is a word that is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to indicate that someone has been tricked or deceived, usually out of money or possessions, by another person. Example sentence: The elderly woman was defrauded out of her life savings by a con artist.
Warshavsky, a top US attorney and the lead lawyer to the trust trying to recover assets for clients defrauded by US financier Bernard Madoff, said construction was not due to begin on the football stadium designed by Hadid until 2015.
Barclays is mounting a vigorous defence against allegations that it defrauded its customers – accusations levelled by the US attorney general last month that sparked a fall in its share price and led to customers withdrawing their business.
Prosecutors allege that they defrauded Adelphia on a "massive scale" and that the firm exaggerated its financial results.
In May this year, PricewaterhouseCoopers paid $55m to settle a suit alleging that it defrauded investors in MicroStrategy by approving accounts that inflated the earnings of the software firm.
He chaired U.S. Technologies' audit committee at a time when investors claim they were defrauded.
Having defaulted on some of their obligations, the Gosaibis allege that Mr Sanea defrauded them of billions of dollars, borrowing money in their name, without their say-so.
Congress gave it new life in 1986, promising big payouts for citizens who blew the whistle on firms that defrauded the government.At first defence contractors were the main targets.
Reliable numbers are hard to come by, not least because people would rather not admit to having been defrauded, nor do websites welcome publicity about crime.
Last year Terra Firma sued Citigroup, the bank that financed the deal, claiming it defrauded it into paying too much.
Second, credit agencies pass on derogatory information about defrauded account holders, long after they know that the account holder is the victim rather than the perpetrator.
A report in February by Baker Tilly, a British accountancy firm, found that the state was defrauded of $32m between April and September last year, equivalent to almost 1% of annual GDP.Her opponents charged that the Cashgate loot was intended to finance the election campaign of her party.
