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Discover LudwigThe phrase "defrauded of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to a person who has been cheated or taken advantage of. For example, "The victims of the Ponzi scheme were defrauded of their money."
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How dare she be defrauded of her womanhood!
When he returned to Nürnberg, he was defrauded of his savings.
I feel I've been defrauded of £1,600, and that eBay is unwilling to rectify it.
But the case of a woman who complained of being defrauded of £11,000 was not considered a priority.
Two months later, Omega Advisers filed a separate suit in London, saying it was defrauded of $126 million.
McCoy concluded that Pedroza had been defrauded of royalties after a four-day trial in February 2015.
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Nevertheless, prosecutors must still prove all the elements of mail fraud or wire fraud in a case regarding a scheme to defraud of honest services.
Mr. Israel would later be convicted of defrauding investors of hundreds of millions of dollars and was sentenced to 22 years in prison.
Madoff has been accused of running a Ponzi scheme that defrauded clients of billions of dollars.
Robert Allen Stanford, the Texas financier accused of defrauding tens of thousands of bank depositors.
MIAMI (AP) — Federal authorities said Friday that they had arrested dozens of suspects in five states on charges of defrauding Medicare of a total of $251 million.
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