'to be defrauded' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing someone as having been tricked, or taken advantage of, usually financially. Example sentence: The elderly couple were defrauded out of their savings by a fraudulent investment scheme.
Police said they identified 140 offences, with £1 million defrauded or attempted to be defrauded from the victims.
The initial fraudulent action and every step thereafter taken, pressed ever to the ultimate goal payment of government money to persons who had caused it to be defrauded.
This specific population — they're disabled, they're people who can't physically go out and get a job and start over — can ill afford to be defrauded".
Operating in a highly regulated industry and in a business where it's possible to be defrauded by unscrupulous customers, American Express still has rules and policies, of course.
The SEC can target the underlying conduct of those fraudsters – and we do – but we also can and should arm investors with information that makes it more difficult for them to be defrauded.
The executives, the S.E.C. said, led shareholders to believe that the bank could rebound from months of hefty losses, causing its shareholders to be defrauded in July 2008, when IndyMac's stock price plummeted and the bank shut its doors.
A handful who appeared to be defrauding the plan were terminated.
The question is, do taxpayers want to have their public monies in a bank that has been proven to be defrauding them?
Long-term inmates are especially vulnerable to being defrauded by family members, business associates, or others who believe that no one will care about the property and assets of convicted felons who might die in prison anyway, Borenstein said.
Every day individual Americans must scrutinize every encounter with every market from credit card interest to insurance premiums to avoid being defrauded.
"That is why we are firmly committed to doing everything possible to recover the money that is alleged to have been defrauded by this former employee".
