fraudulent

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Imagine if your credit card company declined every tenth transaction, reviewed and approved them only if you called, and then determined that more than half of the charges were not fraudulent at all.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 22, 2026

K-pop mogul Bang Si-hyuk, the man who created supergroup BTS, could be arrested on charges of fraudulent trading before his $7.3bn company went public.

From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026

Years later, the commission sued Jordan for selling unregistered securities—a strict-liability process violation that requires no proof of fraudulent intent.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026

All three of the claims, which authorities allege were fraudulent, had the same date of loss and the same location.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2026

From the social point of view the slow and possibly fraudulent unraveling of a multi-trillion-dollar U.S. bond market was a catastrophe.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis