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Phone Fraud

Fraud, Deception and Corruption Offenses

Phone fraud, or more broadly communications fraud, is the use of telecommunications products or services with the intent to illegally acquire money from, or avoid paying, a telecommunications company or its customers. Operators have increasingly invested in measures meant to minimize this fraud and reduce the resulting losses. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Serious or Indictable Offense 1
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Has Offense Grade

Entity-backed identity for the offense-grade enum value this offense already carries, resolved to a crime concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The offense-grade fact itself stays on the offense unchanged.

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1. Phone fraud (Wikipedia)
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