Sentence examples for designed to defraud from inspiring English sources

Most of us have suffered "phishing": unwanted emails and phone calls designed to defraud us.

Like most people in the wired world, Professor Grossman, 41, has been swamped with e-mail messages from Nigeria and other foreign lands, seemingly sincere solicitations that are really schemes designed to defraud gullible recipients with promises of quick riches.

Donald Trump, among his many court battles, has three civil lawsuits that accuse him, his eponymous school, the university's former president, and an LLC behind the venture of fraud, breach of contract, false advertising and racketeering, a pattern of illegal activity -- specifically mail and wire fraud -- designed to defraud the public.

What set this case apart was that the designers were charged by prosecutors with a "criminal design" to defraud the state.

Papers filed by prosecutors in a Milan court allege a "criminal design" to defraud the state.

An interesting point is whether the conversion to an L.L.C. could itself be attacked as a fraudulent transfer designed to hinder, delay or defraud creditors.

Experience has shown that those who tend to defraud the system designed to protect humans generally have even fewer qualms about the welfare of the animals they slaughter.

As the evidence of financial abuses at Enron grows, the more it looks as though the company was an intricate Ponzi scheme designed to enrich top executives and defraud stockholders.

This does not require the defendants' actions to directly result in the fraud; in R v Hollinshead, the House of Lords held that producing devices designed to alter electricity meter readings constituted conspiracy to defraud, even though the actual fraud would be carried out by members of the public rather than the conspirators.

"The notion that (Hussain) should be permitted to intervene and challenge the substance of a settlement designed to protect the interests of the company he defrauded is ludicrous," HP said in a court filing.

Among them is a charge of scheme to defraud as it relates to the falsified mixed-design reports.