Extortion vs Fraud - What's the difference?
extortion | fraud |
The practice of extorting money or other property by the use of force or threats.
Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain.
* Alexander Pope
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, chapter=1 The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.
A person who performs any such trick.
(obsolete) A trap or snare.
* Milton
As nouns the difference between extortion and fraud
is that extortion is the practice of extorting money or other property by the use of force or threats while fraud is any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain.As a verb fraud is
to defraud.extortion
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(wikipedia extortion) (en noun)Synonyms
* blackmailfraud
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(en noun)- If success a lover's toil attends, / Few ask, if fraud or force attained his ends.
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- to draw the proud King Ahab into fraud