What is the meaning of Fraud?

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

Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved or unlawful gain.

The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.

A person who performs any such trick.

A trap or snare.

To defraud

alternative form of frau

Source: wiktionary.org