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Fraud Dictionary
Excerpts from Fraud In Other Words
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Fraud in Other
Words: Professional Jargon and Uncensored Street Slang by Larry C. Adams,
CPA, CFE, CIA, CISA.
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A
Aboveboard
Absolve
Abstract
Access Device Fraud
Acid Test
Accommodation Address
Accounting Rot
Acquisition Fraud (see Missing Trader VAT
Fraud)
Acronymphobia (also see
Acronymphobia)
Add-on
Add-on (see Ghost Rider)
Adduce
Advertising Fraud
Advocacy Stats
AFIS
Ambidexter
Amster (see Ampster)
Ampster
Analysis Paralysis
Anguish Letters (see Fright Mail)
Ankle Biter (see Script Kiddie)
Anomaly
Antiquity Fraud
A Posteriori
A Priori (see A Posteriori)
Asterisk-free
Attorney
Attorney's Fee
Authentication Mechanisms
Autograph
Avoision
B
Baby Photography Racket
Backhander
Back-Pedal
Backstop
Baksheesh
Bad Faith
Badge of Fraud
Balderdash
Bandit Tow Truck Driver
Bankrupt
 Barnum Effect (see Forer Effect)
Bedrageri
Be Full Jerry to Someone
Begging Letter Fraud
Beige Box
Believe
Benefit Tourism
Bid Shopping
Bicheiro
Big Bath Charges
Big RICO
Bilbrey Treatment
Bill-and-Run
Billion Dollar Bill (see Million Dollar Bill)
Biometric Identification
BK
Black-bag Job
Black Box (see Boxing)
Black Letter Law
Blamestorming
Blind Justice
Blow and Go
Blow the Lid Off
Blow the Whistle
Blowing Bubbles
Blue Box (see Boxing)
Blue Sky Laws (also see
Blue Sky Laws)
Blue Snarfing
Blue Suits
Blute
BOLO
Boodle
Boost-and-Chop Scam
Boosters
Bootlegging
Botherder
Botmaster (see Botherder)
Boxing (Blue Box, Black Box, Red Box)
Bribe Payers Index (BPI)
Brownfield Scam
Buckyballs
Bug Letter
Bulk Diagram
Burn Bag
Bushing
Bustarella
Bust Out
Buy a Pig in a Poke
Buyer's Remorse
C
Cahoots (In Cahoots)
Cammer (also see
Cammer)
Camouflage Passports
Canard
Capper
Card Mill
Carding (see Phishing)
Carousel Fraud (see Missing Trader VAT Fraud)
Cassandra Warning
Catch Red Handed
Caveat Emptor
CBOK
CCF License Fraud
Certified Financial Analyst
CFA
CFE
Chaffing and Winnowing
Change Audit
Channel Stuffing (also see
Channel Stuffing)
Charting Party
Check 21
Check Cashing Ring
Chief Privacy Officer
Chinese Wall
Chi Tace Acconsente
Chrematophobia
Chrometophobia (see Chrematophobia)
CHRI
Chuecos
Churn (see Involuntary Churn)
Churning
Clawback
Clean Sheeting
Click Fraud
Clink
Clip Joint
Clip-on Fraud
Cloaking
Club Fed
Clue (Clew, Clewe)
Code V Letter (see Mismatch Letter)
Cold Call
Colorable Transfer
Come Clean
Competent
Compounding a Felony
Conceal
Conditional Spot Financing (see Yo-yo Deal)
Confabulation
Confabulation
Conspiracy of Silence
Constructive Fraud
Consumer Box (see Schumer Box)
Contestability
Conundrum
Cookware Scam
Copy Ban Plus
Corpnership
 Corporate Perp Walk (see Perp Walk)
Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) (see Bribe Payers Index)
Cough Syrup
Counterfeit
Counterfeiter
Counterfeit Software
Courtesy Victim
Cover
Covert
CPO (see Chief Privacy Officer)
Crazy Glue Fuming (also see
Crazy Glue Fuming)
Creative Punishment
Credit Card Generator
Credit Card Swindle
Crime Mapping
Cryptography
CSI Effect
Culprit
Cumshaw
Curbstoning
Curro
Curry Favor
Cutaway
Cyberpunk (see Script Kiddie)
Cybersmear
Cybersquatter (see Cybersquatting)
Cybersquatting
Cygan (see Oszustwo)
D
Dactylography
Dactyloscopy (see Dactylography)
Dataglyph (see Glyph)
Dataveillance
Dead Kite
Death Star Transactions (see Megawatt
Laundering)
Debit Block
Debt
Debtor's Colic
Decomposed Writing
Deep Background
Deep Discounting
Defalcate
Defeasance
Defraudacja (see Oszustwo)
Demand Draft Fraud
Demurrer
Denial
Dénouement
Desnouement (see Dénouement)
Deny
Derivatives
Despachante
Detective
Dialed Number Recorder (DNR)
Digital Dupes
Dilemma
Dime-dropper
Dipsy-doodle
Displacement
Distractors
District Attorney
Dithering
Divert
Doc Flock (also see
Doc Flock)
Document Aging
Dolphin Mind Scam
Dormancy Fee (Inactivity Fee, Servicing Fee)
Dorodoko
Dot Con Artist
Double-Add-Double
Double Whammy Child Support Scheme
Downsizing
Drill Down
Drive-by Tests
Drop House (see Stash House)
Drop Out
Drug Diversions
Dumpster Diving (see Trash Audit)
Dutch Dyke (see Chinese Wall)
E
Easter Egg
EBT (also see EBT)
Edcor (see Mismatch Letter)
Educational Correspondence (see Mismatch Letter)
Electoral Finger Staining (EFS)
Electronic Benefits Transfer (see EBT)
 Electronic Posse (see E-Posse)
Engrupir (see Curro)
Enigma
Entrap
E-Posse
Erector-set Fraud
Ethical
Exaction
Examine
Excess Proceeds Fraud
Expert
Expunge
Extort
Extortion
Extortionist
F
Factoring
Factual Guilt
Fake EBT Transactions
Fall Money
Fall on Deaf Ears
False Token
Fanning
FAQ
Fast and Loose
Fat Chance
FATF (see Financial Action Task Force_
Fat Finger Dialing
Fat Fingers Trap (see Fat Finger Dialing)
Fayuca
Fibber
Fibbie (see Fibber)
Fiddler
Filthy Lucre
Financial Action Task Force
Finagle
Finger Inking
FINTRAC
Fish Files
Fishing (see Phishing)
Flame
Fleece
Fletch
Flimsies
Floating One
Floorman (Pitch-getter)
Fluttered
Foil Transfer
Foreclosure Profit Fraud (see Excess Proceeds
Fraud)
Forer Effect
Forgery
Fourflusher
Fraud
Fraud Order
Fraudulent Alienation
French Roundoff
Friendly Fraud
Fright Mail
Front-end Loan Scam
FSC
Fullerenes (see Buckyballs)
Fungible Asset
Funny Money
G
GAFI (see Financial Action Task Force)
Gaming the System (see Moral Stress Test)
Gang Screen (see Easter Egg)
Gazoomph (see Gazump)
Gazump
Gazumpf (see Gazump)
Gazumph (see Gazump)
G.D. (see Gundeck)
Geldschrank
Geolocation
Get the Third Degree
Ghost Rider (also
Ghost Rider)
Gimmick
Gip (see Gyp)
Gippo (see Gyp)
Glyph
Goldbrick
Good Cop, Bad Cop
Google-ing
Googling (see Google-ing)
Go Scot-free
 Grease the Palm
Groupe d'Action Financière
(see Financial Action Task Force)
Guala
Guaranteed Prize Schemes
Gundeck
Gweep
Gyp
Gypper (see Gyp)
Gypster (see Gyp)
Gypsy (see Gyp)
H
Hack
Ham-and-Eggers
Hang Out to Dry
Hangdog
Hawallas
Haywire
Health Tourism (see Benefit Tourism)
Hidden Toll Charges
Hoarding Scam
Hochsztapler (see Oszustwo)
Hod
Holding
Hollow Swap (see Round-tripping)
Honesty Box (see Schumer Box)
Honeypot
Hoopty
Hoosegow
Hophead
Hopscotch (see Starburst)
Horizontal Analysis
Hornbook Law
Human Engineering
Hundis (see Hawallas)
Hundiwallas (see Hawallas)
I
Illicit
Imperative Principle
Impotence Profiteers
Inactivity Fee (see Dormancy Fee)
Inform
Inside Job
Instanter
Insult Laws
Intention
Interpol
Interrogate
Investigate
Investigating
Investigation
Investigator
Investigative Reporters and Editors (see IRE)
Invigilate
Involuntary Churn
Involuntary Payment
IQEX
IRE
Iron a Card
J
Janet Cooke
Jeito (also Jeito)
Jerry Case
Jip (see Gyp)
Jitney
Joe Soap
Jumper
Jumper (See Ghost Rider)
Justice
Just the facts, ma'am
K
Kala 'apuka
Kashrut Fraud
Keeper
 Keep It Under Your Hat
Kickapoo Cough Cure
Kickapoo Joy Juice (see Kickapoo Cough Cure)
Kill the Messenger
Knockoff Numbers (see Fat Finger Dialing)
Kuglarstwo (see Oszustwo)
L
Laddering
Land Lines
LAN-jacking (see Wardriving)
Laser Visas (see Micas)
Latent Prints
Laura Norda
Lazy Susan Deal (see Round-tripping)
Lemon Laundering (also
Lemon Laundering)
Leucodye Ink
Link Network Diagram
Little RICO
LL. B.
LL. M.
Lock the Barn Door After the Horse Is Stolen
Long Firm
Loophole
LUHN Formula
Lulling
Lundy Strip
Lurker
M
Magha
Mail Cover
Mail Reflector (also
Mail Reflector)
Malfeasance
Maple Syrup Diplomacy
Mark
Matactwo (see Oszustwo)
Megawatt Laundering
Melchizedek Fraud
Mens Rea
Mens Reae (see Mens Rea)
 Micas
Mickey Mouse Bookkeeping
Mickey Mouse Money
MICR Strip (see Lundy Strip)
Million Dollar Bill
Million Dollar Bill with interactive image
Mind Your P's and Q's
Misfeasance
Mismatch Letter
Misqueros (see Street Taxes)
Missing Trader VAT Fraud
MI5
Mock Jury
Mod 10 (see LUHN Formula)
Modulus 10 (see LUHN Formula)
Mokita
Monroney Label
Monroney Sticker (see Monroney Label)
Mooch Manna
Money is the Root of All Evil
Mountebank (see Oszustwo)
Moral Stress Test
Mordida
Mouse Milking
Mrs. Crook
Muckrake
Mumping
Museum Fraud
Mushroom
N
Nabranie (see
Oszustwo)
Neural Network
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
Nieuczciwy handel (see Oszustwo)
Nip in the Bud
Nixie
Nobble
Non-buyer's Remorse
Nonfeasance
Norazi Agent
Nostrum
No True Bill
O
Obfuscate
Obituary Fraud
Office Creeper
OIC
OLAF
Opportunity Scam
Ore Ore Sagi
Organized Crime
Oszust (see Oszustwo)
Oszustwo
Out in Left Field
Outside Man
P
Paint the Tape
Packet Monkey (see Script Kiddie)
Palm Off
Parable of the Mule Traders
Paralegal
Paraleipsis (see Paralipsis)
Paralepsis (see Paralipsis)
Paralepsy (see Paralipsis)
Paralipsis
Paranoia (also see Reverse Paranoia)
Pass the Buck
Patent Flooding
Patronage
Pattes De Mouches
Pay and Chase
Payola
Pay Through the Nose (also
Pay Through the Nose)
Pay to Play
Pencil-whip (see Gundeck)
Pennyweighter
Perjury
Perp
Perp Walk
Phantom Regulator (also see
Phantom Regulator)
Phishing
Phoney (see Phony)
Phony
Phony Slide
Photowalk (see Perp Walk)
Phreak
Phrenology
Picture Pitchers (see Baby Photography Racket)
Pingponging (also
Pingponging)
Piracy
Piratstvo (see Piratsvo)
Piratsvo
Pitch-getter (see Floorman)
Plaintiff
Plastic Prints
Play Fast and Loose
P-notes (see Digital Dupes)
Police Record
Ponzi Scheme
Postal Job Fraud
Power Theft
PPC Fraud (see Click Fraud)
Predatory Lending
Presumption
Prevaricate
Prime Bank Fraud
Private Attorneys General
 Private Eye
Private Laws
Probable Cause
Program Tracing
Project ELF
Proof
Proximics
Prudent Man Rule
PSA
Psychological Warp
Puff-Adder
Puffery
Pulling the Wool Over His Eyes
Pump and Dump
Q
Q.T. (Strictly on the Q.T.)
Qualified Denial
Qui Tam
R
Radio-in (see Gundeck)
Rainbow Pantograph
Rainmaker
RECOL
Recovery Scam (see Rescam)
Redact
Red Box (see Boxing)
Redfellas
Red Herring
Relator
Reload List
Remote Dialer Scam
Repair Strip (see Lundy Strip)
Rescam
Resume Fraud
Revenge Fraud
Reverse Mortgage Fee Scam
Reverse Paranoia (also see Paranoia)
Ricochet Purchasing (see Megawatt Laundering)
Ripping
Rolling Over the Quota
Rolling Revenue
Roorbach (see Roorback)
Roorback
Roper
Roumanian Box Trick
Round-tripping
Rug Burn
Rumanian Box Trick (see Roumanian Box Trick)
S
Sacred Cow (also see
Sacred Cow or
Sacred Cow)
Safe Water Scam
Sail Under False Colors
Salted Name
Salt Shortage Scam (see Hoarding Scam)
Salutary Effect
Salvage Yard
Sanitize (also see
Sanitize)
 Scam Baiting
Scapegoat
Scare Quotes
Schumer Box
Scienter (also see
Scienter)
Scorpion-check (see Snake-check)
Script Kiddie
Scuttlebutt
Seed (see Salted Name)
Seller's Remorse
Servicing Fee (see Dormancy Fee)
Sewer Service
Shamateur
Share Market Fraud
Shock Time
Shopgrifting
Shoulder Surfers
SID (see SIU)
Silent Auction
Silent Second
Sink Testing
SIU
Skimming
Skullduggery
Slamming
Slander
Sleeve (Have Something Up Your Sleeve)
Sling
Sling Back (see Sling)
Slip of the Tongue
Slip Law
Slush Fund
SM
Smart Dollar
Snake-check
Snallygaster (see Snollygoster)
Snallygoster (see Snollygoster)
Snollygoster
Soborno
Softlifting
Soft Money
Sourdough
Spam
Spam
Spike a Job
Spim
Spimbot (see Spim)
Spinning Windies (also
Spinning Windies)
Spoliation
Spoofing (see Phishing)
Spot Delivery (see Yo-yo Deal)
Squib
SSO
Starburst
Stash House
Steal
Steganography
Stonewall
Stoolie (see Stool Pigeon)
Stool Pigeon
Stooly (see Stool Pigeon)
Storm Chasers
Straight from the Horse's Mouth
Street Law
Street Taxes
Stringer
Stripped Book
Stuffing
Subpoena
Sub Rosa
Subscription Fraud
Suck the Mop
Sug
Surface Mapping
Surname Shortage
Swag
Sweat Merchant
Swindle Sheet (also
Swindle Sheet)
Swirls
Sycophant
Szalbierstwo (see Oszustwo)
T
Take for a Ride
Take-out
Take to the Cleaners
Tally
Tar Baby
Teeing In
Telefunders
Telereprographics
Thermochromic Ink
Third Degree, Get the
Three Card Monte
Tiger Team
Tissue Checks
Tomb Looters
Top Hatting
Tops and Bottoms
Touch Pattern
Tracking Dots
Trap Streets
Trash Audit
Trash For Cash (see Swirls)
Trash Marks
Triangulation
Trolling (see Phishing)
Truchada (see Curro)
Truco (see Curro)
True Name Fraud
Trumped-up Charges
Truth
Truth Will Out
Tunneling
Turn a Blind Eye
Turned Over
Twisting (also
Twisting)
Two-dimensional Barcode
Two For One Sale
Typosquatting
U
U/C
Unbanked Community
Unbearable Fraud
Uncover
Unsub
Unsuspecting
Untraceable Fleet
Upfitter
Upset Price
Up to Snuff
USSC
V
Vaporware
VAT Fraud (See Missing Trader VAT Fraud)
Vehicle Charity Scams
Verify
Vertical Analysis
Vet
Vexation
Vexatious Litigant (see Vexation)
Victim
Video Arcade Fraud
Vinegar Boy
Virgule
Vishing
Visible Prints
Voice Mail Jail
Vu Camprá
W
Walking Around Money
Walk On Eggs
WAPS (see Wardriving)
Warbussing (see Wardriving)
Wardriving
Warm Card
Wash (see Round-tripping)
Watered Stock
Wave Therapy
Weasel Word
Weed
Weight Loss Fraud
Wet Ink Policies
Whip-saw
White Intelligence
White Money
Whole Nine Yards
Wiggle Room
Wildcat Subdivision
WILDing (see Wardriving)
Willfully Ignorant
Windbag (also
Windbag)
Window Sticker (see Monroney Label)
Windup Signature
Wine Scam
Winnowing
Wireless Cable Scams
Witness
Witness Chair
Won't Hold Water
X
XBRL
XE
Xenophobia
Y
Yakuza
Yo-yo Deal
Z
Zero In
Zombie Debt
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