fraud include health care fraud, disability fraud, welfare fraud, electoral fraud, employment fraud, visa fraud, insurance fraud, mail and wire fraud...

The Fraud is a historical novel based on the Tichborne case written by Zadie Smith and published by Penguin Random House in 2023. Mrs Touchet is the Scottish...

Fraud Saiyaan (transl. Fraud husband) is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language romantic dark comedy drama film directed by Sourabh Shrivastava and produced by Prakash...

Mail fraud and wire fraud are terms used in the United States to describe the use of a physical (e.g., the U.S. Postal Service) or electronic (e.g., a...

Electoral fraud, also known as voter fraud, and sometimes referred to as election manipulation, election scam, vote rigging, or election stealing, involves...

federal or state court, and are typically charged under wire fraud, bank fraud, mail fraud, or money laundering statutes, with penalties of imprisonment...

Computer fraud is the use of computers, the Internet, Internet devices, and Internet services to defraud people or organizations of resources. In the...

Insurance fraud is any intentional act committed to deceive or mislead an insurance company during the application or claims process, or the wrongful...

Health care fraud includes "snake oil" marketing, health insurance fraud, drug fraud, and medical fraud. Health insurance fraud occurs when a company...

1987), known professionally as Harry Fraud, is an American record producer. Primarily a hip hop producer, Fraud began interning at a recording studio...

A scam center, fraud factory, fraud park, scam factory, scam compound, scam hub, scam park, fraud center, fraud compound, or fraud hub is a collection...

Extrinsic fraud is fraud that induces one not to present a case in court or deprives one of the opportunity to be heard or is not involved in the actual...

fraud, using stolen credit card data to purchase gift cards is becoming an increasingly common money laundering tactic. Another way gift card fraud occurs...

No Fraud is an American hardcore punk/thrash metal band from Venice, Florida, United States, that formed with members Dan Destructo on guitar and vocals...

falsely claimed to have won the election, and made many claims of election fraud. By December 11, 2020, 126 out of 196 Republican members of the House backed...

United States, electoral fraud, or voter fraud, involves illegal voting in or manipulation of United States elections. Types of fraud include voter impersonation...

Return fraud is the act of defrauding a retail store by means of the return process, returning goods ineligible for refund to a retailer in exchange for...

Internet fraud is a type of cybercrime fraud or deception which makes use of the Internet and could involve hiding of information or providing incorrect...

Credit card fraud is an inclusive term for fraud committed using a payment card, such as a credit card or debit card. The purpose may be to obtain goods...

Odometer fraud, also referred to as "busting miles" (United States) or "clocking" (UK, Ireland and Canada), is the illegal practice of rolling back odometers...

Tax evasion or tax fraud is an illegal attempt to defeat the imposition of taxes by individuals, corporations, trusts, and others. Tax evasion often entails...

legal right. Fraud or Frauds may also refer to: Fraud (book), 2006 non-fiction book Fraud (film), 2016 conceptual documentary film Frauds (film), 1993...

Identity fraud is the use by one person of another person's personal information, without authorization, to commit a crime or to deceive or defraud that...

Fraud is a 2016 conceptual collage film directed by Dean Fleischer Camp (credited at the time of release as Dean Fleischer-Camp) in his directorial debut...

"No Frauds" is a diss track by rappers Nicki Minaj, Drake and Lil Wayne. It is a response to Remy Ma's 2017 song "Shether", a nearly seven-minute-long...

Click fraud is a type of ad fraud that occurs on the Internet in pay per click (PPC) online advertising. In this type of advertising, the owners of websites...

A series of fraud scandals and allegations concerning federal funds to Minnesota state-administered social services programs occurred during the 2020s...

pleaded guilty to 11 federal felonies, including securities fraud, wire fraud, mail fraud, money laundering, making false statements, perjury, theft from...

Cheque fraud (Commonwealth English) or check fraud (American English) is a category of criminal acts that involve the unlawful use of cheques to illegally...

Securities fraud, also known as stock fraud and investment fraud, is a deceptive practice in the stock or commodities markets that induces investors to...

Pious fraud (Latin: pia fraus, Italian: santo inganno) or pious deception, is used to describe fraud in religion or medicine. A pious fraud can be counterfeiting...

Fertility fraud is the failure on the part of a fertility doctor to obtain consent from a patient before inseminating her with his own sperm. This normally...

Constructive fraud is a legal fiction describing a situation where a person or entity gained an unfair advantage over another by deceitful or unfair methods...

Friendly fraud, also known as chargeback fraud, occurs when a consumer makes a purchase with their own credit card, and then requests a chargeback from...

Phone fraud, or more generally communications fraud, is the use of telecommunications products or services with the intention of illegally acquiring money...

Heraldic fraud may mean either to falsely claim the right to a coat of arms (or other component of heraldic display) for oneself, or to falsely assert...

Drug fraud is a type of fraud in which drugs, legal or illegal, are cut or altered in such a way that diminishes their value below that which they are...

up fraud squad in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A Fraud Squad is a police department which investigates fraud and other economic crimes. Fraud squad...

Charity fraud, also known as a donation scam, is the act of using deception to obtain money from people who believe they are donating to a charity. Often...

street interviews and political videos. In December 2025, his video alleging fraud at Somali-run child care centers in Minnesota went viral. The video showed...

Bank fraud is the use of potentially illegal means to obtain money, assets, or other property owned or held by a financial institution, or to obtain money...

The Coalition Against Insurance Fraud is a coalition of insurance organizations, consumers, government agencies and legislative bodies in the United States...

Welfare fraud is the act of illegally using state welfare systems by knowingly withholding or giving information to obtain more funds than would otherwise...

Pharmaceutical fraud is when pharmaceutical companies engage in illegal, fraudulent activities to the detriment of patients and/or insurers. Examples...

Disability fraud is the receipt of payment(s) intended for disabled people from a government agency or private insurance company by one who should not...

Hunter Fraud Score is a rating score in India prepared by the credit information company Experian to help detect fraud in credit applications through...

A case of Medicaid fraud was carried out in 2010 by an Armenian-American organized crime group called the Mirzoyan–Terdjanian organization. The scam involved...

fraud is the claiming of Medicare health care reimbursement to which the claimant is not entitled. There are many different types of Medicare fraud,...

A Ponzi scheme (/ˈpɒnzi/, Italian: [ˈpontsi]) is a form of fraud that lures investors and pays profits to earlier investors with funds from more recent...

A statute of frauds is a form of statute requiring that certain kinds of contracts be memorialized in writing, signed by the party against whom they are...

Religious fraud is a term used for civil or criminal fraud carried out in the name of a religion or within a religion, e.g. false claims to being kosher...

Microcap stock fraud is a form of securities fraud involving stocks of "microcap" companies, generally defined in the United States as those with a market...

refused to accept the results; he and his allies made disproven claims of fraud, pressured election officials, filed several unsuccessful lawsuits, and...

Adoption fraud, also known as illegal adoption, can be defined as when a person or institution tries to adopt a child illegally or to give up a child...

Benefit fraud is a form of welfare fraud as found within the system of government benefits paid to individuals by the welfare state in the United Kingdom...

Paternity fraud is one form of misattributed paternity or paternal discrepancy. Specifically, paternity fraud is the intentional misidentification of...

Capitol attack. Many of Trump's pardons have gone to people who committed fraud against the government or investors. In many cases, Trump also removed the...

Skimming is a white-collar crime whereby a person takes cash from the daily receipts of a business, or from any cash transaction involving a third interested...

Missing trader fraud (also called missing trader intra-community fraud or MTIC fraud) involves the non-payment of Value Added Tax (VAT) to a government...

Email fraud (or email scam) is intentional deception for either personal gain or to damage another individual using email as the vehicle. Almost as soon...

Employment fraud is the attempt to defraud people seeking employment by giving them false hope of better employment, offering better working hours, more...

Lottery fraud is any act committed to defraud a lottery game. A perpetrator attempts to win a jackpot prize through fraudulent means. The aim is to defraud...

11, 2009, to 10 counts: conspiracy, securities fraud, investment advisor fraud, mail fraud, wire fraud, perjury, income tax evasion, international money...

The fraud-on-the-market theory is the idea that stock prices are a function of all material information about the company and its business. It applies...

gives an advice on the fraud related to currency: Advance fee fraud Debt elimination fraud Nigerian fraud Cashier's check fraud Fictitious banking High...

variety of ad-frauds committed by cybercriminals into three categories: identity fraud, attribution fraud, and ad-fraud services. Identity fraud aims to impersonate...

1992), commonly known as SBF, is an American entrepreneur convicted of fraud. Bankman-Fried founded the FTX cryptocurrency exchange and was celebrated...

Wine fraud relates to dishonest behavior in the commerce of wine. The most prevalent type of fraud involves wines that are adulterated, usually with the...

Honest services fraud is a crime defined in 18 U.S.C. § 1346, the federal mail and wire fraud statute. The idea of this law was to criminalize not only...

Photo fraud may refer to: Violation of journalism ethics and standards in the area of photojournalism: Photo manipulation Adnan Hajj photographs controversy...

Mr. Fraud is a 2014 Indian heist action thriller film written and directed by B. Unnikrishnan. The film stars an ensemble cast of Mohanlal, Dev Gill,...

debts owed to a bookmaker. He was charged by the US government for bank fraud and tax evasion. On June 4, Mizuhara pled guilty to those charges, and he...

Franchise fraud is defined by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation as a pyramid scheme. The FBI website states: "pyramid schemes — also referred...

Telemarketing fraud is fraudulent selling conducted over the telephone. The term is also used for telephone fraud not involving selling. Telemarketing fraud is one...

accomplishments. They may have a persistent internalized fear of being exposed as frauds. Despite external evidence of their competence, those experiencing this...

generate revenue. Ad fraud is the categorical term inclusive of all forms of online advertising fraud, including click fraud. While ad fraud is frequently associated...

The Public Sector Fraud Authority is a British government organization which works to combat fraud. It is part of the Cabinet Office and HM Treasury. It...

Fyre Fraud is a 2019 American documentary film about the fraudulent Fyre Festival, a 2017 music festival in the Bahamas. It was directed by Julia Willoughby...

Love Fraud is an American true crime documentary television miniseries, directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, about the hunt for a serial romance...

The National Document Fraud Unit (NDFU) is a central unit within the Home Office, based from two offices, one in Liverpool and another office near London...

Fortune telling fraud, also called the bujo or egg curse scam, is a type of confidence trick, based on a claim of secret or occult information. The basic...

Fraud deterrence has gained public recognition and spotlight since the 2002 inception of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Of the many reforms enacted through Sarbanes-Oxley...

Julie were indicted on 12 counts, including conspiracy to commit bank fraud, wire fraud, and tax evasion. They were convicted of all charges in June 2022...

3, 1984) is an American biotechnology entrepreneur who was convicted of fraud in connection with her health technology company Theranos. Holmes founded...

A pig-butchering scam is a form of online relationship and investment fraud in which perpetrators cultivate fake romantic or social relationships with...

Push payment fraud (also known as "authorised push payment fraud" or APP fraud) is a form of fraud in which victims are manipulated into making real-time...

Frankensteins of Fraud is a book written by Joseph T. Wells, founder of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. Subtitled The 20th Century's Top...

Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) is a professional organization of fraud examiners. Its activities include producing fraud information, training...

Fraud is a 2022 Pakistani television drama series written by Zanjabeel Asim Shah, directed by Saqib Khan, and produced by Abdullah Seja under the banner...

The Fraud Act 2006 (c. 35) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which affects England and Wales and Northern Ireland. It was given royal...

and convicted felon whose documented crimes consist primarily of cheque fraud and petty theft targeting individuals and small businesses. Beginning in...

Fraud Discovery Institute was the name of an American short selling investment firm run by conman Barry Minkow. It presented itself as seeking to assist...

In law, fraud is an intentional deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right. Fraud can violate civil law or criminal...

a fingerstick. Both Balwani and Holmes were convicted of fraud. The consequences of the fraud led to the collapse of Theranos and the loss of billions...

Bad Vegan: Fame. Fraud. Fugitives. is a 2022 Netflix docuseries by director Chris Smith. It documents how restaurateur Sarma Melngailis illegally transferred...

The Fraud Advisory Panel is a UK charitable organisation. Incorporated in 2001, the Panel focuses on offering advice and education to the general public...

Vomit fraud is a type of fraud in which a driver of a vehicle for hire falsely claims that an "incident requiring cleanup" occurred while a passenger was...

Fraud Enforcement Department, or IFED for short, is a task force formed by the City of London Police that tracks criminals who commit insurance fraud...

Weight fraud (also scale fraud and short-weighting) is a type of measurement fraud involving the mislabeling or inaccurate weighing of products. In this...

Rounding fraud is a type of financial fraud using round numbers. It is frequently caught by the over usage of certain statistically improbable number patterns...

National Anti-Fraud Center is a Chinese fraud prevention and reporting mobile application developed by the Ministry of Public Security. It was first published...

The Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) is a credential awarded by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) since 1989. Founded in 1988 by Joseph...

The NHS Counter Fraud Authority is a special health authority charged with identifying, investigating and preventing fraud and other economic crime within...

selling penny stocks or private placements or committing outright stock fraud. A common boiler room tactic is the use of falsified and bolstered information...

that the election was stolen by means of rigged voting machines, electoral fraud and an international conspiracy. Trump pressed Department of Justice leaders...

Indigenous identity fraud is the practice of non-Indigenous people incorrectly claiming Indigenous identity. The Indigenous Chamber of Commercaes states...

Following is a list of securities frauds (also called stock frauds or investment frauds): 2003 Mutual-fund scandal: A number of major brokerages and mutual...

electoral fraud in the United States, including elections that were overturned by the United States Congress due to allegations of electoral fraud. The list...

The Hot Lotto fraud scandal was a lottery-rigging scandal in the United States. It came to light in 2017, after Eddie Raymond Tipton (born 1963), the...

Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre (CAFC; formerly known as PhoneBusters National Call Centre) is Canada's national anti-fraud call centre and central fraud data repository...

A long firm fraud (also known as a consumer credit fraud) is a crime that uses a trading company set up for fraudulent purposes; the basic operation is...

The Sky Capital Fraud Case was a significant securities fraud prosecution in New York's history involving Ross Mandell, the founder of Sky Capital Holdings...

engages in extensive fraud for personal gain. The term "control fraud" was coined by William K. Black to refer both to the acts of fraud and to the individuals...

Address fraud is a type of fraud in which the perpetrator uses an inaccurate or fictitious address to steal money or other benefit, or to hide from authorities...

Visa fraud has different criteria in various parts of the world but the commonly accepted points are the sale, provision, or transfer of otherwise legitimate...

Internet fraud prevention is the act of stopping various types of internet fraud. Many different ways of committing fraud over the Internet, such as stolen...

November 1994) is an American former business executive who pleaded guilty to fraud in 2023 in relation to the bankruptcy of FTX. She was the CEO of Alameda...

district from 2013 to 2015. In 2015, Paxton was indicted on state securities fraud charges relating to activities before taking office; he pleaded not guilty...

dump stock fraud scheme at the Stratton Oakmont brokerage in collaboration with Jordan Belfort. In 1999, he was convicted of securities fraud and money...

Fraud represents a significant problem for governments and businesses and specialized analysis techniques for discovering fraud using them are required...

Jaypee Infratech homebuyers fraud (also known as the Jaypee Infratech fraud or Jaypee Wishtown fraud) refers to allegations of large-scale fund diversion...

July 2024, Kingston and his mother were indicted on several federal wire fraud charges. They were convicted in March 2025. His mother was sentenced to...

Quackery, often synonymous with health fraud, is the promotion of fraudulent or ignorant medical practices. A quack is a "fraudulent or ignorant pretender...

The Great Stock Exchange Fraud of 1814 was a hoax or fraud centered on false information about the Napoleonic Wars, affecting the London Stock Exchange...

Fraud: Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and the May 2004 Elections is a 2006 book about the electoral scandal surrounding Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's 2004 reelection...

been criticized for being a platform that has facilitated online financial fraud in the United States. In April 2025, Zelle shut down its standalone app...

Affinity fraud is a form of investment fraud or even political fraud, in which the fraudster preys upon members of identifiable groups, such as religious...

traditional fraud offences such as banking frauds; insurance frauds; investment frauds; insider dealing frauds; advance fee frauds and Internet frauds, amongst...

Human trafficking for cyber fraud refers to human trafficking operations which force victims to commit cyber fraud or cybercrime. Victims are kept in heavily...

The Medicare Fraud Strike Force is a multi-agency team of United States federal, state, and local investigators who combat Medicare fraud through data...

coercion to obtain private keys. Law enforcement notes that investment fraud and laundering are frequent criminal uses of cryptocurrencies, while noting...

has been the center of controversy as the protagonist of the Pandorogate fraud scandal in which she profited millions of euros while claiming to be raising...

"Mobile tower fraud" may be defined as a type of mass marketing fraud with advance fee fraud characteristics, where the central scheme is the installation...

Is Spiritualism a Fraud? (AKA: The Medium Exposed) is a 1906 British silent trick film directed by Walter R. Booth (also credited to J.H. Martin), featuring...

Rape by deception, or rape by fraud, is a situation in which the perpetrator deceives the victim into participating in a sexual act to which they would...

National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB) is the police unit in the United Kingdom responsible for gathering and analysing reports of fraud and financially...

fortune tellers, quack doctors, miracle pharmaceuticals, foreign exchange fraud, Nigerian money scams, fraudulent treasure hunts, and charms and talismans...

examples of affinity fraud in the American West, he attracted the attention of media. Shawn Merriman was convicted of mail fraud and was sentenced to...

Job fraud is fraudulent or deceptive activity or representation on the part of an employee or prospective employee toward an employer. It is not to be...

The Serious Fraud Office may refer to: Serious Fraud Office (United Kingdom) Serious Fraud Office (New Zealand) Serious Fraud Investigation Office, India...

The Haryana Government accounts fraud (also known as Haryana Government multi-bank accounts fraud or Haryana Government funds misappropriation case) is...

Raleigh County, West Virginia. She is known for her convictions related to fraud and the murder of her husband, Michael Brandon Cochran. Natalie Paige Cochran...

money laundering, fraud, embezzlement and breach of contract in August 2018. Modi is being investigated as a part of the $2 billion fraud case of Punjab...

CGK733 was a synthetic chemical substance which was reported in 2006 to have remarkable properties in reversing cell senescence (aging). However, the entire...

The Trial of the Detectives (also known as the Turf Fraud Scandal) was a police corruption scandal involving three senior Metropolitan Police officers...

The Arizona Consumer Fraud Act (ACFA) is a package of Arizona state laws that give protections to consumers in almost any kind of transaction related...

Following the Ye affair in 2005, the Belgian Federal Police launched the Sports Fraud Cell, a department of the Central Office for the Repression of Corruption...

avoid fraud across the site. Fraud committed by buyers includes filing a false shipping damage claim with the shipping company, friendly fraud (receiving...

involve fraud (cheque fraud, credit card fraud, mortgage fraud, medical fraud, corporate fraud, securities fraud (including insider trading), bank fraud, insurance...

Fraud in the factum is a type of fraud where misrepresentation causes one to enter a transaction without accurately realizing the risks, duties, or obligations...

Cambodia are clandestine fraud operations, controlled by international and organized criminal networks specializing in online fraud and operating in Cambodia...

The KPMG tax shelter fraud scandal involved illegal U.S. tax shelters by KPMG that were exposed beginning in 2003. In early 2005, the United States member...

The Guinness share-trading fraud was a major business scandal of the 1980s. It involved the manipulation of the London stock market to inflate the price...

An advance-fee scam is a form of fraud and is a common scam. The scam works by promising the victim a large sum of money in return for a small upfront...

Cooper and her team had exposed the largest accounting fraud in American history, displacing the fraud uncovered at Enron less than a year earlier. By the...

The European Anti-Fraud Office (commonly known as OLAF, from the French: Office européen de lutte antifraude) is a body mandated by the European Union...

Pump and dump (P&D) is a form of securities fraud that involves artificially inflating the price of an owned stock through false and misleading positive...

Unconscious fraud is fraud committed by somebody who does not consciously realise that they are deceiving others. Examples could be a hypnotised person...

through election fraud by the opposing political party. Adherents of the movement are referred to as election deniers. Election fraud conspiracy theories...

The "ghost cattle" or "ghost herd" fraud was a scheme perpetrated by Cody Easterday, a rancher in Mesa, Washington, to charge Tyson Foods for more than...

'tele-marketing fraud' On basis of Scheme central to fraud: 'lottery fraud', 'insurance fraud', 'loan fraud', 'mobile tower fraud', 'quiz fraud' Victim reporting...

period. The statute of limitations may begin when the harmful event, such as fraud or injury, occurs or it may begin when the harmful event is discovered....

1099 OID fraud is a common scam used to obtain money from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) by filing false tax refund claims. Form 1099-OID is...

president Sunny Balwani were charged with fraud by the SEC in 2018. Holmes and Balwani were also charged with wire fraud and conspiracy, with Holmes being found...

The Therapeutic Fraud Prevention Act is a bill in the United States House of Representatives that if passed would prohibit, as an unfair and deceptive...

29일 첫 방송 확정[공식] [Cheon Woo-hee X Kim Dong-wook's cooperative fraud drama 'Beneficial Fraud', first broadcast confirmed on May 29 [Official]]. Herald POP...

The Dubai Islamic Bank (DIB) fraud case was a case originally brought in 2008 that involved the alleged embezzlement of 1.8 billion Dirhams (approximately...

The National Fraud Authority (NFA) was an executive agency of the United Kingdom Home Office responsible for increasing protection for the British economy...

directors. A key figure in Vietnam's largest, multi-billion-dollar financial fraud, Lan was sentenced to death for embezzlement, bribery, and violations of...

consumer fraud expert. His book is considered a "piece of fraud history" by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, and is on display in their fraud museum...

The Cheerful Fraud is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Reginald Denny, Gertrude Olmstead, and Otis Harlan...

Medicaid Fraud Dogg is the tenth and final studio album by American band Parliament, led by George Clinton. It was released on May 22, 2018, under the...

(born October 22, 1956) is an American forensic accounting and financial fraud investigator and former securities industry executive best known for initially...

DigiKavach is an online fraud identification program, designed to prevent online financial fraud in India. It was launched by Google in 2023 to protect...

Joe Torre's 2009 book, The Yankee Years, Rodriguez earned the nickname "A-Fraud" from teammates and particularly from clubhouse attendants who were said...

"whether corresponding offenses to wire fraud existed in Irish law." The court found that although "wire fraud" did not exist in Irish law, the criminal...

The Magnificent Fraud is a 1939 American crime film directed by Robert Florey and starring Akim Tamiroff, Lloyd Nolan, Mary Boland and Patricia Morison...

Foreign exchange fraud is any trading scheme used to defraud traders by convincing them that they can expect to gain a high profit by trading in the foreign...

The Prevention of Fraud (Investments) Act 1958 (6 & 7 Eliz. 2. c. 45) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that consolidated enactments...

and business entities within the Trump Organization engaged in financial fraud by presenting vastly disparate property values to potential lenders and...

Fraud Squad TV is a Canadian half-hour documentary television series aimed at bringing awareness to the public about the global problem of fraud. The series...

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is a non-ministerial government department of the Government of the United Kingdom that investigates and prosecutes serious...

The Great Potosí Mint Fraud of 1649 was a financial fraud involving the fineness of silver coinage that began in Potosí, Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru,...

enforcement of federal fraud laws, especially regarding financial institutions, mortgage fraud, and securities fraud or commodities fraud. English Wikisource...

The Yazoo land scandal, Yazoo fraud, Yazoo land fraud, or Yazoo land controversy was a real-estate fraud perpetrated, in the mid-1790s, by Georgia governor...

it as "bread (or similar staple food)". Bread has been subject to food fraud and adulteration with fillers. In medieval times, sand was used as a filler...

Myanmar–Thailand border, the complex is a major hub of cybercrimes, internet fraud, investment frauds, pig butchering scams (a form of catfishing and romance scams usually...

Intrinsic fraud is an intentionally false representation that goes to the heart of what a given lawsuit is about, in other words, whether fraud was used...

indictments and complaints for felony conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud against 50 people, including Singer, who has been "portrayed...

acquire and obtain controlled substances by fraud and attempt to acquire and obtain controlled substances by fraud after they were accused of hacking the Drug...

Every year in the UK up to £49bn of public money is lost to fraud. Resources are stretched and fraudsters are increasingly sophisticated, making the public...

ABG Shipyard loan fraud is a major financial scandal in India involving the diversion of bank loans and money laundering by the promoters of ABG Shipyard...

October 1976) is an Indonesian convicted criminal and perpetrator of wine fraud. He was found to be offering more magnums of the limited edition 1947 Château...

Following the testimony of Henry Hill, Vario was convicted in 1984 of fraud and was sentenced to four years in prison, followed by a conviction for...

The 2017–2020 Thai temple fraud investigations (Thai: คดีเงินทอนวัด, RTGS: khadi ngoen thon wat, lit. 'Case of returning money by temples') are a series...

responsibility for tackling fraud in the NHS in Wales. It employed 160 people. NHS Protect was replaced by the NHS Counter Fraud Authority in April 2017....

and fraud in Denmark. He previously served for 10 years in the Royal Danish Navy. Khater was dishonorably discharged at the age of 28 for fraud. Khater...

Faith, Fraud & Minimum Wage is a 2011 comedy film adaption of Canadian playwright Josh MacDonald's play Halo. The film is directed by George Mihalka,...

"mafia-style gang", known to engage in activities such as cybercrime, election fraud, human trafficking, illegal drug trading, intimidation, and violence. On...

recently received a full presidential pardon for offenses including tax fraud and lying to White House officials. Before the press conference began, a...

served as the United States assistant attorney general for the national fraud enforcement division since 2026. McDonald began working as an assistant...

Tunneling or tunnelling is financial fraud committed by "the transfer of assets and profits out of firms for the benefit of those who control them". In...

hip hop, he has produced various songs and videos relating to fraud, such as a "Wire Fraud Tutorial", "Internet Swiping", and "Million Dollar Criminal"...

Retrieved 29 September 2015. "Ex-Congressman Reynolds & wife indicted for fraud". CNN. November 7, 1996. Retrieved 22 October 2013. Dorning, Mike (January...

investors and shareholders. This type of "creative accounting" can amount to fraud, and investigations are typically launched by government oversight agencies...

Commission on Election Integrity (PEIC or PACEI), also called the Voter Fraud Commission, was a presidential commission established by Donald Trump that...

Trulioo is a Canadian-based company that provides identity verification, fraud prevention and credit decisioning capabilities for both people and businesses...

CARES Act-related frauds in Puerto Rico was a series of several financial fraud scandals related to the payment of benefits from the Pandemic Unemployment...

Prahladcha (or chacha) "Prahlad" Pandey in Amazon Prime Video's Panchayat, Fraud Saiyaan, Black Widows and Anurag Kashyap's Gangs of Wasseypur Part 2. Ariyippu...

paper mills and brokers. The consequences of scientific fraud vary based on the severity of the fraud, the level of notice it receives, and how long it goes...

Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 (CFAA) is a United States cybersecurity bill that was enacted in 1986 as an amendment to existing computer fraud law (18 U...

The Canal Scrip Fraud was a financial scandal that involved illegal redemption of canal scrip that had been issued by the state of Illinois to pay for...

Everest rescue fraud refers to a series of coordinated insurance fraud schemes in Nepal involving trekking agencies, helicopter operations, and medical...

type of fraud, In Moscow the condition was introduced for the seller to get a certificate of the absence of mental illness. Another type of fraud involves...

In Fraud Case". Deadline. Retrieved July 15, 2022. Patten, Dominic (May 9, 2017). "Ex-'Dance Moms' Host Abby Lee Miller Sentenced To Prison In Fraud Case"...

passport fraud include identity theft, illegally entering a country, avoiding deportation, committing financial crimes, and smuggling. Passport fraud can be...

fraudulent activities. One of the most high-profile cases of cooperative fraud involved Dev Kumar Nepali, the former mayor of Dhorpatan Municipality in...

especially by accounting firms, to help detect fraud. In 2022, PricewaterhouseCoopers reported that fraud has impacted 46% of all businesses in the world...

Financial Fraud Action UK (FFA UK) is the name the financial services industry uses to coordinate its fraud prevention activities. FFA UK is sponsored...

cryptocurrency bubble and fraud. His book on the subject, Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud, was written with journalist...

healthcare fraud scheme in the country's history involving about $1.3 billion dollars in fraudulent claims. He was convicted in 2019 for healthcare fraud, illegal...

Cramming is a form of fraud in which small charges are added to a bill for service(s) or product(s) by a third party without the subscriber's consent...

Force and Fraud: A Tale of the Bush (1865) is a crime novel by Australian writer Ellen Davitt. It was originally published as a serial in The Australian...

party, the Indian National Congress (INC), had found evidence of electoral fraud during the 2024 Indian general election. On 7 August, he alleged that the...

Amendments are made in disability program to help solve some problems of fraud. 1983 Taxation of Social Security benefits introduced, new federal hires...

knowledge due to aggressive internal sales goals at Wells Fargo. News of the fraud became widely known in late 2016 after various regulatory bodies, including...

Fraud & e-Crime Investigation Services is a Division/Section within the Operations Support Command of Tasmania Police and commenced on 1 September 2010...

splitting, simjacking, and SIM swapping) is a type of account takeover fraud that generally targets a weakness in two-factor authentication and two-step...

and reconstruct digital evidence. These tools enhance the detection of fraud, money laundering, and cyber-enabled crimes that traditional auditing methods...

ClearSale LLC is a fraud management and chargeback protection services company that was founded in Brazil in 2001. It has offices in Miami and São Paulo...

The Corporate Fraud Task Force was a United States Federal Government-wide task force formed by President George W. Bush in the wake of corporate accounting...

furnished tents. In March 2018, McFarland pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud to defraud investors and ticket holders, and a second count to defraud a...

SEON Technologies, commonly known as SEON is a company specializing in fraud prevention and anti-money laundering (AML) compliance. The company was founded...

The INSS fraud scheme, also known as the "INSS Scam" or "Aposentão", refers to a criminal scheme that diverted and laundered funds from beneficiaries...

2017, Shkreli was convicted in federal court on two counts of securities fraud and one count of conspiracy. He was sentenced to seven years in prison and...

Methbot was an advertising fraud scheme. Methbot was first tracked in 2015 by cybersecurity firm White Ops, and the botnet saw rapidly increased activity...

The Israsov fraud case was a financial scheme in which Leonid Roitman embezzled funds from Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union who immigrated...

The Adam Wheeler fraud case was a 2010 criminal case in Massachusetts involving a former Harvard University student, who had fabricated his academic credentials...

Marriage Fraud—8 U.S.C. § 1325(c) and 18 U.S.C. § 1546", US Attorneys Manual, Title 9, Criminal Resource Manual. The Immigration Marriage Fraud Amendments...

presidential election, protests broke out amid allegations of election fraud. On 12 October 2025, Cameroon held another presidential election that was...

fraud, insurance premium fraud, workers' compensation claim fraud, workers’ compensation premium avoidance and diversions, insurer insolvency fraud,...

insurance fraud, became more common. Life insurance payouts are often a goal for people faking their deaths, but most types of insurance fraud involve other...

The QBF fraud case (дело КьюБиЭф) was a Ponzi-style investment scheme run through the Moscow-based brokerage QBF between 2012 and 2021. Russian police...

1992 or 1993) is a French and American businesswoman who was convicted of fraud in relation to her student financial aid application assistance company...

The National Council Against Health Fraud (NCAHF) was a not-for-profit, US-based organization, that described itself as a "private nonprofit, voluntary...

of a fraud will have no help from the law. He must let the truth be told." The crime–fraud exception also does require that the crime or fraud discussed...

Music Fights Fraud Alliance (MFFA) is a global nonprofit organization established in June 2023 to combat streaming fraud within the music industry. The...

Bailey (1870–1947) was an Australian apport medium who was exposed as a fraud. Bailey was born in Melbourne. He worked as a bootmaker and became a famous...

for alleged fraud and market manipulation. Mashinsky pleaded guilty to one count of commodities fraud and one count of securities fraud, and was sentenced...

The Big Call (Chinese: 巨額來電; formerly known as Fraud Squad), is a 2017 Chinese crime drama film directed by Oxide Pang, starring Cheney Chen, Joseph Chang...

charged in Connecticut with mail fraud and tax fraud. They had previously been charged in Alabama with securities fraud. They pleaded guilty to all of these...

from work. Her embezzlement has been described as the largest municipal fraud in U.S. history. Crundwell pleaded guilty to her crimes and was sentenced...

Supreme Court case in which the court held that, for deportation purposes, fraud is an aggravated felony when the loss to the victims exceeds $10,000, and...

have set up online fraud reporting websites to build awareness about online scams and help victims make reporting of online fraud easier. Examples are...

The Piltdown Man was a paleoanthropological fraud in which bone fragments were presented as the fossilised remains of a previously unknown early human...

The California Comprehensive Computer Data Access and Fraud Act is in §502 of the California Penal Code. According to the State Administrative Manual...

IVRCL loan fraud (also referred to as the IVRCL bank fraud case) was a major corporate banking fraud case in India involving Hyderabad-based infrastructure...

Sklare, Steven A. (30 November 2020). "Chapter 8. Coffee and Tea fraud". Food Fraud: A Global Threat with Public Health and Economic Consequences. Academic...

attempts in the 1980s. In 2001, he was convicted of 31 charges of felony fraud, and served five years in federal prison. In 2010, he became father-in-law...

prevent voter fraud, despite no evidence of significant levels of fraud in the state (there have been only four convictions for voter fraud in the state...

Federal Fraud Scandal Operation Board Games is a federal fraud investigation initiated by United States Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald in December 2003, in...

counts of wire fraud, 11 counts of money laundering, one count of financial institution fraud, and one count of campaign contribution fraud. Cox pled guilty...

was a Hong Kong conglomerate. It collapsed amidst a major corruption and fraud scandal. Carrian was founded in 1977 by George Tan Soon-gin, who fled Singapore...

Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Act 2025 (c. 28) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It is primarily intended to combat benefit fraud. It...

United States Supreme Court case regarding the federal honest services fraud statute. In the case, the Court held that a private citizen with significant...

one of the largest investment frauds ever perpetrated by a single person, as well as one of the largest accounting frauds in history. The scheme is often...

Modi, and brother Neeshal Modi are named in an alleged Rs 12,636 crore fraud at Punjab National Bank. In order to escape India after the scam, he secured...

Rybolovlev and Swiss art dealer Yves Bouvier. Rybolovlev accused Bouvier of fraud, alleging that he had significantly inflated the prices of 38 artworks,...

have made the identification of forged artwork much simpler. This type of fraud is meant to mislead by creating a false provenance, or origin, of the object...

chief executive officer, Christopher Alexander Delgado, on charges of wire fraud and money laundering, alleging that the firm had operated as a Ponzi scheme...

following is an alphabetical list of notable people known to have committed fraud. Alfredo Sáenz Abad, retired in 2013 as CEO and vice-chairman of the Spanish...

fraud, which included one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud and wire fraud, one count of money laundering, one count of securities fraud...

Frauds is a 1993 Australian thriller comedy film written and directed by Stephan Elliott and starring Phil Collins, Hugo Weaving and Josephine Byrnes....

accounting fraud at Satyam broke. He was briefly the interim CEO after the then-Chairman and CEO Ramalinga Raju admitted to the accounting fraud and stepped...

Pharmaceutical fraud List of off-label promotion pharmaceutical settlements "GlaxoSmithKline to Plead Guilty and Pay $3 Billion to Resolve Fraud Allegations...

spin-offs. In 2022, she and her husband, Todd Chrisley, were convicted of bank fraud and tax evasion. After a series of appeals, U.S. President Donald Trump...

bestial appetites or violence, or by perverting their human intellect to fraud or malice against their fellowmen". As an allegory, the Divine Comedy represents...

convicted of fraud for his role in a scheme to sell DNP. In 1988, he and some of his family and associates were charged with a variety of insurance fraud charges...

was subsequently convicted of an unrelated offence involving insurance fraud in 2003 and ordered to resign his commission as a major by the Army Board...

citizen, he was not African American. Yang, Tseming (2006). "Choice and Fraud in Racial Identification: The Dilemma of Policing Race in Affirmative Action...

A Hash House Fraud is a 1915 film short (16 minute) directed by Charley Chase featuring the Keystone Cops. A "hash house" is an early 20th century American...

Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences) Act, 2001 (No. 50 of 2001) updates and consolidates the law relating to dishonesty and fraud in Ireland. The main...

arrested by the FBI and charged with wire fraud, conspiracy to commit securities fraud, seven counts of securities fraud, and lying to the FBI, for tipping off...

The term pucherazo is used in Spain to refer to an electoral fraud in terms of illegally manipulating the results of an election. The term "pucherazo"...

trafficked overseas to a Southeast Asian country and forced to commit Internet fraud. It features Lay Zhang, Gina Jin, Yong Mei, Wang Chuanjun, Darren Wang,...

and criminal liability of fraud and replaced the old European treaties on fraud. It created a unified definition of fraud, and signatory states were...

with wire fraud in Manhattan federal court for his role in the organization of the festival. After pleading guilty to two counts of wire fraud in March...

including criminal conspiracy, making false statements, securities fraud, tax fraud, and securities law violations, and sentenced to four years in prison...

Bait-and-switch is a form of fraud or false advertising. It can also refer to: Bait and Switch (album) by Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments (1995) "Bait...

including enhanced corporate responsibility, financial disclosures, and combat fraud, following the highly publicized and extremely harmful (to victims) scandals...

include mail fraud and other criminal statutes when they are tied to the mails, such as bank fraud, identity theft, credit card fraud, wire fraud, and Internet/computer...

National Hunter is a British credit fraud checking agency that operates an "anti-fraud data sharing system", operated by Experian Decision Analytics, on...

These early gambling hubs along the borders became infrastructure for later fraud operations. The operations gathered pace in the 2000s as internet connectivity...

British woman from Staines, Surrey, who was convicted of sexual assault and fraud for establishing physical relationships with teenagers while dressed in...

attempted use of time bombs has been for various purposes including insurance fraud, terrorism, assassination, sabotage and warfare. They are a frequent plot...

prostitution, obscene publications, nightclubs, vice, casino fraud, money laundering and identity fraud. On 29 October 2009, the Metropolitan Police Authority...

Macalister-Stebbins Bond Fraud was a financial scandal that occurred in the State of Illinois in 1859. While investigating the Canal Scrip Fraud, the State Senate...

Day of Creation, a history of molecular biology, and The Great Betrayal: Fraud in Science, an examination of the deliberate manipulation of scientific...

securities fraud, commodities fraud, wire fraud and conspiracy. He was extradited to the United States, where he pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud. He was...

United States Department of Justice under the indictment of bank and wire fraud regarding financial transactions in violation of U.S. sanctions against...

the UK, sham marriage is a form of immigration fraud undertaken to gain legal immigrant status. The fraud is investigated mostly by the UK Border Force...

being presented with the bill. It is often considered a form of theft or fraud. In the United Kingdom, dine and dashes are prosecuted as making off without...

investigate Whitacre for embezzlement. As a result of $9.5 million in various frauds, Whitacre lost his whistleblower's immunity, and consequently spent eight...

court with a four-count grand jury indictment for securities fraud, wire fraud, bank fraud, and conspiracy. In March 2025, both were found guilty on all...

related to biology and ecology before being banned from the website for vote fraud – using multiple secret accounts to increase the popularity of his own posts...

a key component of the social safety net for low-income Americans. SNAP fraud is rare. The amount of SNAP benefits received by a household depends on...

communications-related crimes, and spent five years in prison after being convicted of fraud and illegally intercepting communications. Mitnick's pursuit, arrest, trial...

war. From 2005 to 2009 he was the "ringmaster" of a series of advance-fee fraud schemes that defrauded dozens of individuals out of millions of pounds....

held that debts incurred by fraud cannot be discharged in bankruptcy, regardless of whether the debtor committed the fraud. In 2012, the petitioner, Kate...

– April 18, 2002) was an American woman who committed extensive welfare fraud and, after the publication of an article in the Chicago Tribune in fall...

debasement fraud in conjunction with local silver merchants. On January 25, 1650 he was executed for his involvement in the Great Potosí Mint Fraud of 1649...

The TRAI SIM Closure Fraud is a scam in India where fraudsters impersonate the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) to deceive mobile users into...

hematologist/oncologist and the mastermind of one of the largest health care frauds in U.S. history. Fata was the owner of Michigan Hematology-Oncology (MHO)...

promoting consumer protection and providing information about health related frauds, myths, fads, fallacies, and misconduct. It primarily targets alternative...

with rice and asparagus Tray of shrimp oreganata There is a growing food fraud concern in Asia–Pacific where non-food grade gels are injected into shrimp...

investigates financial crimes and unknown transactions such as advance fee fraud (419 fraud) and money laundering. The EFCC was established in 2003, partially...

securities fraud. The Manhattan Investment Fund fraud resembled the Madoff fraud in certain respects. In both cases regulators failed to catch the fraud. The...

victim to send money to the scammer under false pretenses or to commit fraud against the victim. Fraudulent acts may involve access to the victim's money...

given a fine. In 1966, he was sentenced to 3 months of probation for check fraud. In 1968, he produced records of history documentaries for Israeli record...

football player and self-described CIA agent who was convicted of wire fraud and mail fraud in 1985. According to Rewald, he attended the Massachusetts Institute...

fraud scheme". C. Wilbur, Kenneth (2008). "Click Fraud". Retrieved August 6, 2025. Schonfeld, Erick (October 8, 2009). "The Evolution Of Click Fraud:...

guilty in 2017 to grand larceny, scheming to defraud, and criminal tax fraud. She admitted stealing over $2 million from investors and employees. She...

However, following severe financial losses in the 1990s as a result of fraud, corruption and mismanagement, the NPF was privatised in 2002 and its assets...

is an American former stockbroker and businessman who pleaded guilty to fraud and related crimes in connection with stock-market manipulation and running...

In the U.S., bankruptcy fraud statutes are particularly focused on the mental state of particular actions. Bankruptcy fraud is a federal crime in the...

"MYSTERY" channel. The show profiles various cases involving corporate fraud and white collar crimes. Some of the episodes profile two of these cases...

under the pseudonym Egoman, who is now under investigation for a criminal fraud. In August 2016, he allegedly developed his scam app which allowed users...

worked primarily for Nativist Know Nothing politicians to commit election fraud. Formed in the mid-1850s, the gang became known as the Bloody Tubs for their...

The Counter Fraud and Security Management Division protects the staff, assets and resources of the National Health Service in England and Wales. Since...

the time the scheme collapsed in 1872 it had become the largest case of fraud in 19th-century Bavaria. Johann Baptist Placht ran a Ponzi scheme in Vienna...

The reprivatisation fraud in Warsaw happened on a massive scale during the reprivatisation in Warsaw [pl], which was performed after the fall of the Communist...

226 billion yen, which would make it, if proven, to be the biggest investment fraud in Japanese history since Toyota Shoji, an investment group, defrauded investors...

decision on criminal law and procedure. By a 5–4 margin it upheld the mail fraud conviction of an Illinois man and resolved a conflict among the appellate...

provides location data for IP addresses and other data for IP addresses, and fraud detection data. MaxMind was founded in 2002 by Thomas "TJ" Mather and is...

1961) is an American former financier who pled guilty to felony securities fraud and other crimes. Fastow was the chief financial officer of Enron Corporation...

Transcript fraud is a growing problem for both educational institutions and employers.[citation needed] This is related to diploma fraud, which is the...

former financier, and sponsor of professional sports. He was convicted of fraud in 2012 for operating a massive Ponzi scheme, and is serving a 110-year...

The following list is a discography of productions by Harry Fraud, an American record producer and recording artist from New York City, New York. It includes...

appearance by Strange Music rapper Rittz, and contains production by Harry Fraud, DJ Burn One, Rich Kidd, Sap, and Ned Cameron among others. Homegrown was...

Northern Ireland, broken up into the specific crimes of burglary, robbery, fraud, theft, and related crimes. However, larceny remains an offence in parts...

or parole, which began within the last five years for a felony involving fraud, bribery, embezzlement, or a false statement in a loan application or an...

a 20th-century American spiritualist medium who was discovered to be a fraud. Decker was born to a family of Syrian origin. He lived in Greenwich Village...

Pandorogate is a fraud scandal surrounding Italian influencer Chiara Ferragni following revelations that she had promoted products claiming proceeds would...

state court with fraud, money laundering, and conspiracy in connection with the campaign. In February 2025, Bannon pleaded guilty to fraud and was sentenced...

scandals of fraudulently labeling foodstuffs, including a ground beef fraud scandal. The fraud came to light after a former executive felt called upon to become...

Alexander "Alex" Murdaugh, secretly led a life of crime that included acts of fraud, corruption, embezzlement, theft and drug offenses spanning decades and...

13 counts of fraud. Under the name Citron Research, Left publishes reports on firms that he claims are overvalued or are engaged in fraud. Left is known...

Trương Mỹ Lan for over a decade, Vạn Thịnh Phát orchestrated a large-scale fraud scheme targeting the Sai Gon Joint Stock Commercial Bank (SCB). The Vạn...

non-existent cash and bank balances. In 2015, he was convicted of corporate fraud, which led to the collapse of Satyam Computers. Another tech firm called...

certifying to the SEC that the firm's investment advisory business, in which the fraud was occurring, had 23 clients and $17.1 billion under management, when in...

creatively planned accounting fraud, known since as the Enron scandal. Enron became synonymous with willful, institutional fraud and systemic corruption. The...

Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper. He was convicted of two counts of fraud, one was during the 1980s and again in 1990. His 1980 conviction resulted...

conspiracy to commit mail fraud, wire fraud, and bank fraud, making false statements on loan applications, and bankruptcy fraud in a 39-count indictment...

mini-series, The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann (2019), Bad Vegan: Fame. Fraud. Fugitives. (2022), Biggest Heist Ever (2024) and Mr. McMahon (2024). Smith...

computer data), misuse of devices, forgery (or identity theft) and electronic fraud. In the infancy of the hacker subculture and the computer underground, criminal...

Other names include the paving scam, tarmacking, the asphalt scam, driveway fraud or similar variants. Non-English names include "Truffa dell'asfalto" (Italian)...

businessman and financier best known for his involvement in a business fraud scandal that complicated his ties to friend and future U.S. President Lyndon...

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO; Māori: Te Tari Hara Tāware) is the public service department of New Zealand charged with detecting, investigating and prosecuting...

Vadodara-based pharmaceutical company. The case, one of the largest bank frauds in the country's history, involved alleged defaults and siphoning of funds...

The Oregon land fraud scandal of the early 20th century involved U.S. government land grants in the U.S. state of Oregon being illegally obtained with...

agencies of the fraud alert. Consumers may request an extended fraud alert, in which case requires the reporting agency to disclose this fraud alert in any...

The Prevention of Social Housing Fraud Act 2013 (c. 3) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which will create offences and make other provision...

During the process of becoming a public company, it continued to engage in fraud, including overstating profits and inflating inventory. Eddie Antar resigned...

American businessperson who was convicted of insider trading and securities fraud. He worked as a junk bond salesman at Drexel Burnham Lambert. He testified...

2000, Weiss was sentenced to 845 years in prison for racketeering, wire fraud, money laundering, and other charges in connection to the collapse of the...

of Credit Suisse. In July 2024, he was convicted on federal charges of fraud and racketeering, and in November 2024, he was sentenced to 18 years in...

investigate and unearth $3.8 billion in fraud at WorldCom which, at that time, was the largest corporate fraud in U.S. history. Cooper was named one of...

tens of millions of dollars needed to cover his fraud. He subsequently pleaded guilty to bank and wire fraud and served a federal prison sentence. Spano was...

into the allegations of voter suppression. Voter suppression Electoral fraud "Unofficial 2016 Presidential Preference Election Results". azsos.gov. Retrieved...

credit unions, and fintech companies to automate identity verification, fraud prevention, anti-money laundering screening, and credit underwriting. Alloy...

and carbon credit fraud that was wound-up by the British Official Receiver in March 2012. After the company was wound-up, the fraud continued through...

Celebrity impersonation scams via social media are forms of fraud that occur when an individual or group fraudulently represents themselves as well-known...

Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud is a book published in 2000 by physics professor Robert L. Park, critical of research that falls short...

UK-wide telephone number used for contact of the caller's respective bank's fraud department. Stop Scams UK and Global Cyber Alliance have launched this service...

Bait-and-switch is a form of fraud used in retail sales but also employed in other contexts. First, the merchant "baits" the customer by advertising a...

Yield burning is a form of financial fraud involving the United States municipal bond market. Yield burning was a method by which major Wall Street U...

an investigation by a number of European news media outlets into a tax fraud scheme discovered by them in 2017. A network of banks, stock traders, and...

fraudulently inflating the value of security to a bank, bank fraud, mail fraud and wire fraud. Parrot Corporation was set up in 1983 as the only British...

The sale of Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard in 2011 led to accusations of fraud and resulted in civil litigation in the UK in 2019. The case was decided...

investigate the company for fraud. On 8 April, the U.S. stock market halted trading on all Luckin shares over the fraud probe. In the month of April...

specializing in the investigation of confidence crimes, most notably psychic fraud. He has been instrumental in the arrest and conviction of numerous psychics...

market rendered Allied insolvent, which led its creditors to discover the fraud. Affected corporations included American Express, Bank of America and Chase...

investors Gökçe Güven, a 2025 honoree charged with securities fraud, wire fraud, visa fraud, and aggravated identity theft. Karun Kaushik, CEO and co-founder...

ex-CIA agent. He was exposed as a fraud by actual CIA analyst Kent Clizbe, and convicted of multiple counts of fraud and other violations in 2016. Raised...

Originally known as Paul Chen-Young & Company. The company was implicated in a fraud scandal in 2023, which led to it declaring bankruptcy. It is now in receivership...

the Biden administration, called it the country’s largest pandemic relief fraud scheme. Although the state agency responsible for monitoring the school...

the subject of a number of lawsuits over discrimination, drug fraud, federal billing fraud, distribution of opioids, discrepancies between shelf price and...

) was a British clergyman and spiritualist medium who was exposed as a fraud. Monck was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire. He claimed to have psychic experiences...

fraud. On February 21, the bipartisan State Election Board unanimously voted to call for a new election for the 9th district, because of ballot fraud...

singer Charlie Rock on the chorus, and was produced by record producer Harry Fraud. The song was first released as part of Montana's mixtape Mister 16: Casino...

currently serving a ten-year prison sentence in the United States for internet fraud that caused $11M losses to his victims. After initially pleading guilty...

National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB) collates fraud data from Report Fraud (the national fraud reporting centre that records incidents of fraud directly...

for running a smear campaign against the head of the New Zealand Serious Fraud Office. She published the Cactus Kate blog, and wrote the fortnightly Cactus...

In mid-February 2020, the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) announced that it was investigating the NZ First Foundation in response to allegations that the party...

The Economics of Innocent Fraud: Truth for Our Time was Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith's final book, published by Houghton Mifflin in 2004....

holding that the Criminal Code of 1909 does not require indictments for mail fraud to show that the fraudulent mailed statements were directly shown to the...

Indigenous identity fraud in Canada. Founded in 2022, the Ghost Warrior Society investigates suspected cases of Indigenous identity fraud related to First...

is a publicly traded company that provides software as a service (SaaS) fraud and chargeback prevention technology. Riskified’s technology uses behavioral...

was part of an investigation by numerous law enforcement agencies into frauds enabled by this caller ID spoofing. It was shut down in November 2022 as...

regulatory inquiries. In 2022, he was found guilty of securities and wire fraud. He was sentenced to four years in prison, a US$1 million fine and $168...

digital house arrest or virtual arrest) is a form of organized cybercrime and fraud in which perpetrators impersonate law-enforcement, government agencies,...

dollars. The swindle is considered one of the most significant cases of bank fraud in US history. He has been a fugitive from justice ever since, and is on...

Bird v Bicknell [1987] 2 NZLR 542 is a cited case in New Zealand regarding fraud merely being a factor (albeit an important factor) in determining whether...

Kulik were keynote speakers at the Central Ohio Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE). Trilogy Media creates content that exposes scammers by...

Nationair Canada and its parent company Nolisair. Obadia was charged with fraud after the bankruptcy of Nationair in 1993. Nationair was responsible in...

television series which tells stories of corporate corruption, securities fraud, and creative accounting. All six one-hour long episodes began streaming...

jumping horse killings scandal refers to an unverified number of insurance fraud cases in the United States between the mid-1970s and the mid-1990s in which...

activist firm Hindenburg Research accused Adani of stock manipulation and fraud. In January 2024, the Supreme Court resolved the Adani Group stocks dispute...

indicted by a federal grand jury in Virginia on two counts: one charge of bank fraud and one charge of making false statements to a financial institution. The...

early 2000, the company was placed in administrative receivership after fraud by its leaders was discovered at the company. Versailles was listed on Alternative...

The Sharpstown scandal was a stock fraud scandal in the state of Texas in 1971 and 1972 involving the highest levels of the state government. The name...

2003 and was subsequently the biggest share fraud on the AIM to date. It was investigated by the Serious Fraud Office, the City of London Police, the Accountancy...

political scandal in the Netherlands involving false allegations of welfare fraud by the Tax and Customs Administration (Belastingdienst) against thousands...

author, salesman, and television personality, who has been convicted of fraud, larceny, and contempt of court, and is also known for promotion of his...

state of Texas that would have made it a felony to commit "gender identity fraud," effectively criminalizing being transgender. It was introduced by Representative...

Frauds is a British crime thriller television miniseries for ITV starring Suranne Jones and Jodie Whittaker. Having spent ten years in prison, Bert reunites...

programs. It is the federal government's primary litigation tool in combating fraud against the federal government. The law includes a qui tam provision that...

Renshaw and Edwards were exposed in 1992 for committing New Zealand's largest fraud by a law firm. In a bizarre situation, unbeknown to each other, not one...

operations in the Philippines to serve as the marketing engine for Medicare fraud targeting beneficiaries of the Medicare insurance. The scheme involved enticing...

statements in connection with the sales. An investigation by the British Serious Fraud Office into the deal was discontinued after political pressure from the...

fertility fraud as a Level 6 felony. S.E.A. 174, P.L. 215 became effective July 1, 2019. It reads: Establishes a cause of action for civil fertility fraud and...

organization based in Houston, Texas, whose stated objective is stopping voter fraud. The organization supports voter ID laws and trains volunteers to be election...

being bitten on the neck by the trickster Gianni Schicchi, who had used fraud to claim another man's inheritance. It was Bougereau's third and ultimately...

circumstances and under many jurisdictions because of the potential for fraud and damage. However, if a shill does not place uninformed parties at a risk...

society that was formed in 1868 by Jabez Balfour and failed in 1892 due to fraud perpetrated by its founder. Balfour used his widespread non-conformist and...

numerous ways, including: Scan avoidance Price overrides Refund fraud, gift card fraud Void fraud Invoicing scams Sweethearting is the most common type of employee...

In 1991, Tucker was convicted for his illegal activities, including mail fraud, associated with a bogus lending company he operated, Chase, Morgan, Stearns...

Holmes, et al., (No. 18-CR-00258-EJD) was a United States federal criminal fraud case against the founder of now-defunct corporation Theranos, Elizabeth...

the company. The police stated they lacked evidence to charge him with fraud and charged him with breach of trust and illegally accessing computers....

characters in one of Australia's larger tax frauds involving phoenixing. The estimated amount of money involved in the fraud, according to the investigating authorities...

False billing, also known as fraudulent billing or billing fraud, is a fraudulent act of invoicing or otherwise requesting funds from an individual or...

was involved in a corruption scandal. He was convicted of honest services fraud and sentenced to 7 years in prison. Nuru was born in the United Kingdom...

in 1991 accepted a plea bargain that convicted him of two counts of wire fraud stemming from publishing an article in Phrack magazine. He wrote an article...

federal criminal charges: conspiracy, securities fraud, investment advisor fraud, mail fraud, wire fraud, perjury, income tax evasion, international money...

September 24, 2007, Chand was re-arrested and charged with counseling to commit fraud over $5,000 for the benefit of a terrorist group. Police informant Mubin...

States Supreme Court decided that the federal statute criminalizing mail fraud applied only to the schemes and artifices defrauding victims of money or...

Literary forgery (also known as literary mystification, literary fraud or literary hoax) is writing, such as a manuscript or a literary work, which is...

In 2012, he was sentenced in absentia to eight years of imprisonment for fraud totalling CZK 108,000,000. In November, 2013, he was arrested and charged...

Pruitt was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and health care fraud by the United States Department of Justice on December 12, 2019...

website which focuses on advance-fee fraud. The name 419 comes from "419 fraud", another name for advance fee fraud, and itself derived from the relevant...

his attorneys, and his supporters falsely asserted widespread election fraud in public statements, but made few such assertions in court. Every state...

tax evasion, and in 2020, he settled one of the largest individual tax fraud cases in United States history, agreeing to repay $139M and testify against...

Operation Broken Trust, the largest investment fraud sweep by the Federal government of the United States, was conducted between August 16 and December...

the FBI, Philbrick committed the largest art fraud in American history. He was convicted of wire fraud in May 2022 and was sentenced to seven years in...

guilty to eight counts including campaign-finance violations, tax fraud, and bank fraud. Cohen said he violated campaign-finance laws at Trump's direction...

in Florida and beyond." It was reported that he founded company called Fraud Guarantee so he could bury the history of his debts in Google search results...

investigated a number of respected Spiritualist mediums, uncovering fraud or suspected fraud in every case that they examined. An ardent believer in Spiritualism...

and 伍仟 (5000). They are also referred to as "banker's numerals" or "anti-fraud numerals". For the same reason, rod numerals were never used in commercial...

election fraud. Phillips was a partner in the project with the Texas-based conservative organization True the Vote, which alleged widespread voter fraud in...

involved in a cheque bounce and fraud case related to the company. A bureaucrat, B.K. Bansal, investigating Elder Pharma fraud committed suicide in September...

Mobilier scandal (French pronunciation: [kʁedi mɔbilje]) was a two-part fraud conducted from 1864 to 1867 by the Union Pacific Railroad and the Crédit...

Judge Allwin E. Horn ruled that Scrushy was responsible for HealthSouth's fraud, and ordered him to pay $2.87 billion. On July 25, 2012, Scrushy was released...

serious fraud allegations. In November 2023, the SEC and the United States Department of Justice charged SafeMoon and its executive team with fraud, the...

"Oceana study reveals seafood fraud nationwide". Oceana. February 2013. Retrieved May 2, 2016. "Oceana study reveals seafood fraud nationwide" (PDF). Oceana...

11, 2009, to 10 counts: conspiracy, securities fraud, investment advisor fraud, mail fraud, wire fraud, perjury, income tax evasion, international money...

Mehajer was declared bankrupt and in April 2018 was found guilty of electoral fraud, and sentenced to 21 months in prison with a non-parole period of 11 months...

investor losses at $1.3 billion, though U.S. authorities later placed the fraud's total scale at $1.89 billion. The scheme aggressively targeted communities...

directors on the basis that, where the company was essentially the victim of a fraud by the directors, the conduct of the directors would not be attributed to...

her husbands, convicted of poisoning another, and convicted of numerous fraud offenses. According to The Washington Post, Shepard's first husband, Russell...

[2009] UKHL 39 is a leading case relevant for UK company law and the law on fraud and ex turpi causa non oritur actio. The House of Lords decided by a majority...

Teeming and lading is a bookkeeping fraud also known as short banking, delayed accounting, and lapping. It involves the allocation of one customer's payment...

taxes. 1099-OID fraud involves filing Form 1099-OID with false withholding information to reduce taxable income. Promoters of the fraud allege that the...

2022: Killing of Amir Locke Feeding Our Future (part of 2020s Minnesota fraud scandals) 2023: Killing of Ricky Cobb II 2024: Burnsville shooting Whittier...

by registration under the Torrens title system, the application of the fraud exception to the principle of indefeasibility and whether Frazer v Walker ...

taxation, and international investment strategies. Starchild was convicted of fraud-related offenses in the United States in the late 1960s and in both the...

Members of Parliament (MPs) as accomplices and beneficiaries in a large-scale fraud scheme, under which Parliament unknowingly recompensed MPs and private travel...

Ugandan-born British convicted criminal with multiple convictions pertaining to fraud and stalking in the United States, South Africa, and United Kingdom. In...

fixed income, multi asset and private markets. AllianzGI became known for fraud case in which its Structured Alpha fund lost over 6 billion dollars in the...

Miller". A variation of the strawman theory is found in the "legal name fraud" movement, which believes that birth certificates give the state legal ownership...

general election. In February 2023, O'Mara was found guilty of six counts of fraud by false representation, and was sentenced to four years in prison. O'Mara...

The 1985 West Bank land fraud case was a scandal involving fraudulent sales of land in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The case emerged during a period...

concluded upon further examination of the videos that there was no fraud or intent to commit fraud. The videos received less media attention than earlier O'Keefe...

New York v. Trump et al, a 2022 state civil suit regarding real estate fraud People of New York v. Trump, a 2023 state criminal case on unlawful payments...

The Electoral Fraud (Northern Ireland) Act 2002 (c. 13) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which reformed the electoral system in Northern...

prosecuted nearly 100 Wall Street executives for insider trading and securities fraud using these legal methods. Bharara closed settlements with the four largest...

of fraud: one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud, one count of conspiracy to commit wire and bank fraud, one count of securities fraud, one...

criminal and author from Oregon, United States. After being convicted of land fraud, he lived as a fugitive for several months before being captured. He wrote...

contributing, earlier ones keep getting a return on their investment and the fraud continues. But eventually, new investors stop contributing and the whole...

national lead police force for fraud, having responsibility for the Report Fraud service operated by the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau. The force...

for bankruptcy and was also found to have committed massive accounting fraud, for which it was subject to SEC investigation. In 2002, Sunbeam emerged...

The Valmiki Corporation scam was a major Indian financial fraud scam involving the Karnataka Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation...

on 3 September 1968) is responsible for the UK's largest ever mortgage fraud, of over £760 million, and has been called "Britain's most successful serial...

Bankman-Fried, commonly known as SBF, was convicted on seven charges of fraud and conspiracy following the collapse of his cryptocurrency exchange FTX...

public-limited firm based in London that was allegedly involved in a serious fraud worth close to £300 million (US$600 million). RBG Resources made $1.1 billion...

Court case regarding class action certification for a securities fraud claim. Under the fraud-on-the-market theory, the Court had to inquire as to if markets...

Kingdom. Since its inception in 1996 it has been a member of the Specialist Fraud Panel and has grown into a top-tier firm in multiple fields. It has represented...

for the Southern District of New York on charges including wire fraud, securities fraud, money laundering, making false statements to a financial institution...

(SIC) is a Bulgarian criminal group engaged in drug trafficking, financial fraud, car theft, smuggling, extortion, racketeering and prostitution, using the...

the difference, the buyer will unlikely be able to qualify for the loan. Fraud in appraisal happens during both upturn and downturn markets. When a homeowner...

American physician and popular medical writer who was convicted of mail fraud. Hirshberg was born in Baltimore to a Jewish family. He earned his M.D....

transporting, transferring, harboring, or buying human beings through force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of exploiting them for profit. This exploitation...

books. In his book, Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Life, Their Fraud (2014), he criticises the Marxist school of Indian historiography for its...

Signifyd is an American technology company that develops fraud protection and abuse prevention technology. It is based in San Jose, California. Signifyd...

2019, Konstantin Ignatov pleaded guilty to charges of money laundering and fraud. The total maximum sentence for the charges is 90 years in prison. In 2022...

matching, digital wallets, reporting, fund remittance, currency exchange and fraud protection. The PSP will typically provide software to integrate with e-commerce...

Pelullo, and FirstPlus Financial officers engaged in bank fraud, mail fraud, wire fraud, interstate transportation of stolen property, and money laundering...

Moldovan banks: Banca de Economii, Unibank and Banca Socială. This bank fraud was a coordinated effort involving all three banks working together to extract...

Madhya Pradesh. He is known for supervising investigations into cyber fraud, "digital arrest" scams, online betting and financial crime cases, and for...

conviction occurred in 2002 when he was sentenced to probation for mortgage fraud. He then sold the mortgage company he owned in a Tampa, Florida-area firm...

Catholic priest and radio personality born in Costa Rica, convicted of fraud and accused of murder in 2007. Father Minor jumped into the public eye as...