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All Fraud, Deception and Corruption Offenses

The ICCS class for offenses that obtain money, property, advantage or the concealment of illicit gain through deception, breach of trust or the corrupt exercise of position, extended here to the financial-crime offenses whose method is documentary or informational falsification and to the closely related offer or acceptance of an improper benefit to influence official or business conduct. Belongs here: any offense whose harm is achieved by lying, falsifying, concealing or corruptly influencing rather than by force or stealth. Does not belong here: deception or unauthorized access carried out specifically through a computer system as its own investigative and legal specialty, grouped under Cyber and Technology-Enabled Offenses, even where the underlying motive is financial. This subcategory groups Fraud, Embezzlement, Forgery, Counterfeiting, Identity Theft, Insider Trading, Money Laundering, Tax Evasion, Bribery and Racketeering.

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Origin EraSourced to the subject's own account
1939 1
All Fraud, Deception and Corruption Offenses
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Accounting Scandal

Fraud, Deception and Corruption Offenses

Adoption Fraud

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Advance-Fee Fraud

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Advance-Fee Scam

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Affinity Fraud

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Antitrust Violation

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Art Student Scam

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Bait-and-Switch

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Ballot Stuffing

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Bank Fraud

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Bankruptcy Fraud

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Bid Rigging

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Bigamy

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Blackmail

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Blockbusting

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Boiler Room

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Bribery

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Bucket Shop (Finance)

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Business Identity Theft

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Cartel

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Charity Fraud

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Cheating (Law)

Fraud, Deception and Corruption Offenses

Check Kiting

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Cheque Fraud

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Churning

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Commercial Bribery

Fraud, Deception and Corruption Offenses

Coney-Catching

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Confidence Trick

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Consumer Fraud

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Copyfraud

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Cornering the Market

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Corrupt Practices

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Corruption

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Counterfeit

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Counterfeit Consumer Good

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Counterfeiting

Fraud, Deception and Corruption Offenses

Cramming (Fraud)

Fraud, Deception and Corruption Offenses

Credit Card Fraud

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Currency Counterfeiting

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Customs Fraud

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Cut and Shut

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Deception (Criminal Law)

Fraud, Deception and Corruption Offenses

Economic Abuse

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Elder Financial Abuse

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Electoral Fraud

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Embezzlement

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Employment Fraud

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Evasion of Liability by Deception

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False Accounting

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False Advertising

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False Lien

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False pretenses

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Falsifying Business Records

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Financial Crime

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Food Fraud

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Foreign Electoral Intervention

Fraud, Deception and Corruption Offenses

Forgery

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Fraud

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Fraudulent Conveyance

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Friendly Fraud

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Front Running

Fraud, Deception and Corruption Offenses

Ghosting (Identity Theft)

Fraud, Deception and Corruption Offenses

Gold Laundering

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Healthcare Fraud

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Identity Theft

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Illicit Enrichment

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Industrial Espionage

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Insider Trading

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Insurance Fraud

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Kickback

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Late Trading

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Layering (Finance)

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Loan Sharking

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Long Firm Fraud

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Mail Fraud

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Market Manipulation

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Match Fixing

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Miracle Cars Scam

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Misappropriation

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Mismarking

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Missing Trader Fraud

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Money Laundering

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Money Muling

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Monopolization

Fraud, Deception and Corruption Offenses

Mortgage Fraud

Fraud, Deception and Corruption Offenses

Naked Short Selling

Fraud, Deception and Corruption Offenses

Nottingham Knockers

Fraud, Deception and Corruption Offenses

Obtaining a Money Transfer by Deception

Fraud, Deception and Corruption Offenses

Obtaining Pecuniary Advantage by Deception

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Obtaining Property by Deception

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Obtaining Services by Deception

Fraud, Deception and Corruption Offenses

Occupational Crime

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Odometer Fraud

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Official Misconduct

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Options Backdating

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Passport Fraud

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Payroll Fraud

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Pharmaceutical Counterfeiting

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Phone Fraud

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Pig Butchering Scam

Fraud, Deception and Corruption Offenses
Sources
1. Wikipedia: White-Collar Crime
White-collar crime, introductory section, subcategory-level citation
Quote, White-collar crime, introductory section, subcategory-level citation
It was first defined by the sociologist Edwin Sutherland in 1939 as 'a crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of their occupation'.
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