Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Fraud is, roughly, the crime or offense of deliberately deceiving another in order to damage him -- usually, to obtain property or services from him unjustly. [1] Forms of fraud include confidence tricks such as the 419 fraud; false advertising; identity theft; forgery of documents or signatures; the selling of products of spurious use, such as quack medicines; creation of false companies or "long firms"; false insurance claims; and securities frauds such as pump and dump. See also: Accounting scandals Creative accounting Political corruption Nigerian money transfer fraud (419 fraud) The National Council Against Health Fraud An American private nonprofit, health agency. Ponzi scheme Phishing This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.