Fraud vs Pseudo - What's the difference?
fraud | pseudo |
Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain.
* Alexander Pope
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A person who performs any such trick.
(obsolete) A trap or snare.
* Milton
An intellectually pretentious person; a pseudointellectual.
A poseur; one who is fake.
(travel industry, informal) pseudo-city code
(Internet) A pseudonym; a false name used for online anonymity.
* 2011 , Divina Frau-Meigs, Media Matters in the Cultural Contradictions of the "Information Society" (page 299)
Other than what is apparent, a sham.
Insincere.
Spurious.
As nouns the difference between fraud and pseudo
is that fraud is any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain while pseudo is an intellectually pretentious person; a pseudointellectual.As a verb fraud
is (obsolete) to defraud.As an adjective pseudo is
other than what is apparent, a sham.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
Synonyms
* (criminal) deceit * trickery * hoky-poky * imposture * (person ) faker, fraudster, impostor, cheat(er), tricksterSee also
* embezzlement * false billing * false advertising * forgery * identity theft * predatory lending * quackery * usury * white-collar crimepseudo
English
Noun
(en noun)- Issues such as verifiability (for age declared), anonymity (in spite of pseudos and avatars) and traceability are at stake