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Fraud vs Swindling - What's the difference?

fraud | swindling |

As nouns the difference between fraud and swindling

is that fraud is any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain while swindling is the act by which somebody is swindled.

As verbs the difference between fraud and swindling

is that fraud is to defraud while swindling is present participle of swindle.

fraud

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • If success a lover's toil attends, / Few ask, if fraud or force attained his ends.
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  • The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.
  • A person who performs any such trick.
  • (obsolete) A trap or snare.
  • * Milton
  • to draw the proud King Ahab into fraud

    Synonyms

    * (criminal) deceit * trickery * hoky-poky * imposture * (person ) faker, fraudster, impostor, cheat(er), trickster

    See also

    * embezzlement * false billing * false advertising * forgery * identity theft * predatory lending * quackery * usury * white-collar crime

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To defraud
  • swindling

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which somebody is swindled.
  • * 1850 , Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (volume 68, page 226)