Definition of frauds:
(n) :
(law) The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics.
(n) :
Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved or unlawful gain.
(n) :
The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.
(n) :
A person who performs any such trick.
(n) :
(obsolete) A trap or snare.
(v) :
(transitive, obsolete) To defraud.