Fraud
3. What is Fraud?
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Last updated: 24 Jul 2015
- Fraud is a broad term that covers many types of dishonest conduct and criminal behaviour.
- The Concise Oxford Dictionary defines fraud as “criminal deception.”
- In some states and territories offences relating to fraudulent or deceptive conduct are called ‘fraud.’ In others they are called ‘deception offences.’
- With the exception of blackmail, dishonesty and deception are the basis for these criminal offences.
- There is a lot of overlap between deception offences. For example police may decide to file a charge of theft where the conduct could just as easily have amounted to obtaining property by deception.
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