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Losing money or property to scams and fraud can be devastating. Our resources can help you prevent, recognize, and report scams and fraud. In law, fraud is intentional deception to deprive a victim of a legal right or to gain from a victim unlawfully or unfairly. Fraud is an intentional act of deception or misrepresentation, or a purposeful failure to disclose material facts, designed to secure an unfair or unlawful gain. Fraud is defined as an intentionally deceptive action intended to provide the perpetrator with an unlawful gain or to deny a victim’s right. Tax fraud, credit card fraud, wire fraud, securities fraud, and bankruptcy fraud are all examples of fraud. “Fraud” is any activity that relies on deception in order to achieve a gain. Fraud becomes a crime when it is a “knowing misrepresentation of the truth or concealment of a material fact to induce another to act to his or her detriment” (Black’s Law Dictionary).
The meaning of FRAUD is deceit, trickery; specifically : an act, expression, omission, or concealment calculated to induce another to part with something of value or to surrender a legal right.
