Fraud lawyer
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What is Fraud?
Fraud is the crime or offense of deliberately deceiving another in order to damage them--usually, to obtain property or services from him unjustly. Fraud can be committed through many methods, including mail, wire, phone, and the Internet.
Forms of criminal fraud include:
- Confidence tricks such as the 419 fraud, Spanish Prisoner, and the shell game
- False advertising
- Identity theft
- False billing
- Forgery of documents or signatures
- Taking money which is under your control, but not yours (embezzlement)
- The selling of products of spurious use, such as quack medicines
- Creation of false companies or "long firms"
- False insurance claims
- Securities frauds such as pump and dump
Fraud is also a type of civil law violation known as a tort. A tort is a wrong for which the injured party may bring a suit in court for damages in the form of monetary compensation. A civil fraud typically involves the act of making a false representation of a fact susceptible of actual knowledge, which is relied upon by another to his or her detriment.
Wikipedia.org contributed to this material.
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