fraud
The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics.
Other meanings
Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved or unlawful gain.
The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.
Related words
- advance fee fraud
- affinity fraud
- antifraud
- befraud
- biofraud
- carousel fraud
- category fraud
- click fraud
- constructive fraud
- copyfraud
- counterfraud
- cyberfraud
Word history
From Latin "fraus" (deceit, injury, offence).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “fraud” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.