1.   Fraud also became a problem.

2.   Health care fraud has become an increasingly hot issue for prosecutors around the country, since they are emboldened by new laws passed by Congress to stem costs.

3.   In recent years, PRI-engineered fraud has become much more sophisticated.

4.   Over the years, with the entire process controlled by the governing Institutional Revolutionary Party, fraud became commonplace.

5.   Stock fraud has become so profitable that crooks are turning to violence to protect their turf, law enforcement officials contend.

6.   The Cendant fraud has already become one of the most expensive in history.

7.   The National Consumers League, a consumer group in Washington, D.C., says on-line auction fraud has become the most common kind of Internet fraud.

8.   The SEXI saga serves to remind investors that penny-stock fraud has become a big and profitable business.

9.   These schemes are increasingly popular in Canada, where cross-border fraud has become a thriving industry, even as U.S. authorities have made inroads against telemarketing crime.

10.   Barbers said credit card fraud also has become prevalent in the region.