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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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Point Shaving

Fraud, Deception and Corruption Offenses

Police Corruption

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Political Corruption

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Polygamy

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Ponzi Scheme

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Predatory Lending

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Predatory pricing

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Price Fixing

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Price Gouging

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Procurement Fraud

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Pump-and-Dump Scheme

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Pyramid Scheme

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Racial Steering

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Racketeering

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Redlining

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Return Fraud

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Romance Scam

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Round-Tripping (Finance)

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Securities Fraud

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Sham Marriage

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Shill

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Short and Distort

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Skimming (Fraud)

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Spoofing (Finance)

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Spot-Fixing

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Staged Crash

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State Capture

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Stolen Valor

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Structuring

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Tax Evasion

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Technical Support Scam

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Telephone Slamming

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Theft of Trade Secrets

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Ticket Fixing

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Timeshare Fraud

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Trade Misinvoicing

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Trade-Based Money Laundering

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Trading in Influence

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Usury

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Uttering

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Visa Fraud

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Vote Buying

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Voter Intimidation

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Voter Suppression

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Wage Theft

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War profiteering

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Warehouse Bank

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Wash Trading

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Welfare Fraud

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Wine Fraud

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Wire Fraud

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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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