For the sake of both our countries, the world must be convinced that this was all an elaborate fraud.

The authenticity of the film has been questioned by some critics, who allege that it is an elaborate fraud.

An elaborate fraud has been uncovered by sharp-eyed staff sifting through student paperwork.

THE English country house hotel, let it be known, is an elaborate fraud.

His suspicions that I was perpetrating an elaborate fraud on the local phone company could not be assuaged.

His work was later identified to be falsified and described as an "elaborate fraud".

You arranged an elaborate scientific fraud for the purposes of profit.

The latter theory was supported by a litigation-funded study that has since been shown to have been "an elaborate fraud".

In fact, he was running an elaborate fraud involving dubious accounting and forged assets.

"Yeah, maybe it is all some elaborate fraud, who knows?"