Fraud vs Conspiracy - What's the difference?
fraud | conspiracy |
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
The act of two or more persons, called conspirators, working secretly to obtain some goal, usually understood with negative connotations.
(legal) An agreement between two or more persons to break the law at some time in the future.
A group of ravens.
(linguistics) A situation in which different phonological or grammatical rules lead to similar or related outcomes.
As nouns the difference between fraud and conspiracy
is that fraud is any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain while conspiracy is the act of two or more persons, called conspirators, working secretly to obtain some goal, usually understood with negative connotations.As a verb fraud
is to defraud.fraud
English
Noun
(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