(law) The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics. / Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain.

(obsolete) To defraud

plural of fraud

Full of fraud, deceit, or treachery; fraudulent.

present participle of fraud

simple past tense and past participle of fraud

The state, quality, or condition of being fraudful; deceitfulness.

(law) Receiving insurance policy-based compensation by intentionally causing an event due to which the claim for the compensation for insured property becomes seemingly lawful, and by concealing the intention.

A scam in which the solicitor offers large sums of money in return for a smaller up front investment.

(US, law) A felony of a particular class subject to a separate and additional federal penalty for any crime of fraud involving the use of technological communications methods such as wire, radio, or television.