fraud
- Noun. Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain.
- Noun. The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.
- Noun. A person who performs any such trick.
- Verb. (obsolete) To defraud.
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