Fraud can be defined as either a civil wrong or a criminal act. For civil fraud, a government agency or person or … See more

The falsification of documents, known as forgery, and counterfeiting are types of fraud involved in physical duplication or fabrication. The "theft" of one's personal information or identity, like one finding out another's s… See more

The detection of fraudulent activities on a large scale is possible with the harvesting of massive amounts of financial data paired with predictive analytics or forensic analytics, the use of electronic data to reconstruct or detect finan… See more

Participants of a 2010 survey by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners estimated that the typical organization loses five percent of its annual revenue to fraud, with a median loss of $160,000. Fraud committed … See more

In China, according to the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China, the Crime of Fraud (诈骗罪) refers to the "criminal act of deceiving and obtaining public or private property."
According t… See more

Apart from fraud, there are several related categories of intentional deceptions that may or may not include the elements of personal gain or damage to another individual:
• Obstruction of justice
• 18 U.S.C. § 704 which crimi… See more

• Bait-and-switch
• Caper stories (such as The Sting)
• Contract fraud
• Corruption
• Cramming (fraud)… See more