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.