Fraud
Fraud is the crime or offense of deliberately deceiving another in order to damage them -- usually, to obtain property or services from him unjustly. . Fraud can be committed through many methods, including mail, wire, phone, and the Internet.
Forms of criminal fraud include:
Fraud is also a type of civil law violation known as a tort. A tort is a wrong for which the injured party may bring a suit in court for damages in the form of monetary compensation. A civil fraud typically involves the act of making a false representation of a fact susceptible of actual knowledge which is relied upon by another to his or her detriment.
Known fraudsters and various forms of fraud
- Frank Abagnale, US impostor who wrote bad checks
- Ivan Boesky, inside trader in the 1980s
- Cassie Chadwick, who pretended to be Andrew Carnegie's daughter to get loans
- Anthony Di Angelis, "the Salad Oil King"
- William Duer, embezzled $238.000 from US Treasury Department in the 1790s
- Ivan Kreuger “The Match King”
- Dennis Levine
- Gregor MacGregor, Scottish conman who tried to attract investment and settlers for a non-existent country of Poyais
- Robert Maxwell, UK newspaper tycoon who milked his companies dry
- Gaston Means
- Michael Milken, "The Junk Bond King"
- Barry Minkow and the ZZZZ Best
- Frederick Emerson Peters, US impersonator who wrote bad checks
- Charles Ponzi, namesake of Ponzi scheme
- Christopher Rocancourt who defrauded Hollywood celebrities
- Serge Rubinstein, Russian-born diamond swindler
- Richard Whitney, stole from Stock Exchange Gratuity Fund in 1930s
- Robert Vesco, US fugitive financier
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