Fraudster
(noun)
A person who commits fraud; a swindler.
Origin:
Coined from fraud + -ster, a suffix indicating a person who performs a certain action or belongs to a certain group.
Examples:
- The fraudster convinced the elderly woman to invest her life savings in a fake business.
- The company lost millions of dollars to the actions of the fraudster.
- The police are searching for the fraudster who stole identities to open fake bank accounts.
- The fraudster was finally caught and sent to prison.
- The fraudster's schemes were so elaborate that it took the authorities a long time to unravel them.