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Fraud

noun

(law) The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics.

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'fraud' is a perfectly correct and usable word in written English.
It is typically used to describe someone or something as dishonest or illegally taking money or resources from someone else. For example, "The company was accused of fraud when they illegally diverted customer funds."

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As the Italian senate was deciding to expel Berlusconi following his conviction for tax fraud, the man himself was addressing a rally of his supporters outside his home in Rome.

Government figures estimate benefit fraud due to identity theft at between £20-£50m £20-£50mm, a fraction of the LSE's low cost estimate for the scheme of £10bn.

A Minnesota national guardsman faces federal fraud charges in connection with the theft of names, social security numbers and security clearance levels of roughly 400 members of his former army unit in Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

Abolished in cases of serious and complex fraud in 2003.

Mote was suspended from Ukip in 2004, shortly after he was elected, when the party discovered he was facing separate charges for benefit fraud.

The Secret Service has a dual mission to protect the president and to police counterfeiting and financial fraud.

"That inquiry – conducted by two former judges and a senior accountant – found that Jack Warner had committed fraud and misappropriated the funds – in other words he had stolen the money from Concacaf … We asked Concacaf to give our money back because it wasn't used for the purpose we intended, and were advised by Fifa to wait until the inquiries were complete".

In its rebuttal, Barclays said: "Fundamentally, the complaint fails to identify any fraud – establishing no material misstatements, no identified victims, and no actual harm".

In Britain it has always been legal to call yourself whatever you like (as long as you're not committing fraud), so it is hard to get a definitive figure.

APC women's leader Victoria Nyeche told Agence France-Presse: "What happened today was unprecedented … All we want is a fresh election because what happened on Saturday was a fraud".

Sean Sullivan, a security analyst at F-Secure, said: "Smart cities can provide planning departments a lot of very value information for better city living – but it could also be a big vector for fraud unless properly secured.

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