Using another person's identification data to defraud or deceive is known as identity theft. This can include stealing personal information such as social security numbers, credit card numbers, or passwords to commit crimes or make unauthorized transactions in the victim's name. Identity theft is a serious crime that can result in financial losses and damage to the victim's reputation.
If you had a username and password for something, say Xbox live, and you call Microsoft and ask what credit card you have currently on the account, and then you use that to buy something
swindle, trick, fraud, cheat, deceive, defraud, dupe, hoodwink
Yes. A hoax is "a deliberate deception or fraud".
deceive, trick, fool, con, mislead, rip off, fleece, defraud
made in exact imitation of something valuable or important with the intention to deceive or defraud.
To mislead, deceive, cheat, defraud. Less common usage is to entertain in a charming fashion
An attempt or disposition to deceive or lead into error; any declaration, artifice, or practice, which misleads another, or causes him to believe what is false; a contrivance to entrap; deception; a wily device; fraud., Any trick, collusion, contrivance, false representation, or underhand practice, used to defraud another. When injury is thereby effected, an action of deceit, as it called, lies for compensation.
An organized scheme to defraud means someone has intentionally planned to con another out of money or property. The person committing fraud would have acted under false pretenses to gain the trust of another before committing the crime.
Embezzle is a synonym of to steal. Embezzle means to misappropriate or steal money from the organization the person works for.
An attempt or disposition to deceive or lead into error; any declaration, artifice, or practice, which misleads another, or causes him to believe what is false; a contrivance to entrap; deception; a wily device; fraud., Any trick, collusion, contrivance, false representation, or underhand practice, used to defraud another. When injury is thereby effected, an action of deceit, as it called, lies for compensation.
Only if the intent is to defraud or cause financial harm to another.
A senior manager was arrested for attempting to defraud his employer.