Fraudstress

Perhaps we should also have the concept of fraudstress or, if we are to eliminate such terminology from out^([sic]) vocabulary, we should talk about a fraud person.

[…] 25-year-old benefit fraudstress […]

After all, there have must have been at least a dozen American serial killers who used newspaper personal and want ads to locate potential victims. They were essential to the modi operandi of Belle Gunness, the turn-of-the-century Western insurance fraudstress who may have killed 40 people before disappearing mysteriously, […]

She was quite certain now there was a divine conspiracy to expose her for who and what she really was—Katherine Baxter, hopelessly on-the-shelf spinster, and just as hopelessly inept fraudstress—and banish her back to Bellingham Hall where she’d never see the light of day again.

The sources, however, tell a different story, that of a fraudstress [Diana Stewart] who adapted to her circumstances like a chameleon in order to make a living, relying on female networks to gain credibility, and in the process hoodwinking both the Royalists and [John] Thurloe, while managing to keep her sexual reputation intact.

The cast of characters she [Annette Messager] embodied in her projects included “the practical woman”, “the collector”, “the fraudstress” and “the artist”.