What is fraud?

[curlymiss]

Hi everyone, I'd be real grateful for your advice. I'm trying to explain what fraud is but I'm stuck. Can anyone help? What is fraud?

[TAKTAK]

http://tinyurl.com/rxwkb9

[Fraz]

Did you seriously join this forum just to post this question?

[stevie lee]

probably wondering, seen as were supposed to be techy geniuses in all fields (well you have got a hadron collider fraz ) whether we have any tips so as not to get caught.



OR

fraud is a deliberate misrepresentation which causes another person to suffer damages

sorry about that curlymiss and zakk,

to skip all the pointless stuf below please click HERE to proceed to the next useful post.

[Clunk]

[Mazzle]

Clunk my good man you are my brother in arms, this is EXACTLY (in all absolute form) what I was gonna do and went to wiki (ugh) to see that photo wanted to be sarcy and post it but thought better of it. No words will fully express the joy I am now experiencing.

[Dareos]

(well you have got a hadron collider fraz )

some kids have all the luck, i asked for one of those and my parents got me a BMX

[Salazaar]

some kids have all the luck, i asked for one of those and my parents got me a BMX

Yeah but it's broken. And who wants a broken hadron collider...? You just know they're gonna box it up, stick it in the loft and forget about it.

[peterb]

have I missed something? Is it open season on new members today?

C'mon guys - it's a reasonable question - even if there are other sources that might be more appropriate!

[Betty_Swallocks]

Nah, I've got a fiver that says it's a bot

[Zak33]

until we know it's a bot, you should be nicer and more helpful. Please

.....SHE might be real, and now you've just confirmed that all tech people on hardware forums, are lonely keyboard warriors or geeks with no mates.

Group slaps I think...even TAK TAK for a great link. /Slap

[santa claus]

Yeah but it's broken. And who wants a broken hadron collider...? You just know they're gonna box it up, stick it in the loft and forget about it.

Yep because they tried it and nothing happened. On the other hand, the BMX was useful.

[shadowmaster]

I think this wiki article gives a good idea of what fraud is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraud
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-fraud.htm
http://criminal-law.freeadvice.com/w...imes/fraud.htm

Do we have any lawyers in this forum? I'd imagine they could explain it rather well

[Mazzle]

I just thought I'd add to my rather useless post before, I apologise but needed a laugh and well Clunk gave. Anyway my actual reponse would be to elaborate on the question, I'm pretty sure most people know what fraud is as a concept and seeing as this is the internet there were a large number of research methods at hand. If they wanted to know about a specific aspect of fraud then I would be happy to help but we need details just as someone who asks for directions they need to say where they are going first.

The online Oxford Dictionary says;

fraud

/frawd/

• noun

1) wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain.

2) a person intending or thing intended to deceive.

— DERIVATIVES fraudster noun.

— ORIGIN Old French fraude, from Latin fraus ‘deceit, injury’.

My head is hung

[Andeh13]

http://tinyurl.com/rxwkb9

Technically, id class that as a picture perfect model of what fraud is*!



edit;
*we all clicked expecting something funny/anti-OP & instead got something totally unexpected.

[Dareos]

Selling someone a parrot, and claiming that its a parrot, a living breathing parrot, when it turns out to be a dead parrot, or even an ex parrot, would be considered fraud.

Or....


discounting a holiday to sell car hire, and presenting the customer with a price for the whole package, and not informing the customer that their holiday actually was cheaper and the car hire was the same price, therefore discounting one product to sell a 3rd party product, could be considered fraudulent, resulting in a 3 week paid suspension and investigation, result of which you are completely cleared of all wrongdoing, reinstated and given extra responsibilities right before they close down your call centre...

sorry, did i go off on a tangent there?

anyways, it wasn't fraud, so there