Talk:Fraud/Archives/2014

This Article Needs Work as of December 2013
76.208.149.41 (talk) 09:32, 28 December 2013 (UTC) U.S. Legal Professional 12/27/13 Fraud is a complex and varied concept with wide-ranging legal, financial, economic and social implications. This article on fraud makes a fair attempt at addressing many of the applicable concepts, but does so in a rather haphazard manner. It seems to me that this article could be substantially improved through a general restructuring of its hierarchy followed by an editing of the various sections to coordinate their purposes and content. Additionally, several sections of this article are totally lacking citations.

A quick review of the edit history shows that this article has not been actively managed over the past few months. In that light, I intend to charge ahead with implementation of my proposal if I don't hear any feedback from other uses in the next day or so.

I hope that my proposal and resultant changes are well taken by others, and that I don't step on anyone's toes. If any other users would like to share in this initial effort, let's try to coordinate our work.

=STBO= "Defrauding people or organizations of money or valuables is the usual purpose of fraud" is just like saying "cooking food is the purpose of a cook". Especially since the verb defraud is mentioned earlier. The whole sentence that this begins with needs improving, e.g.: Fraud is primarily used to deprive people or organizations of money or valuables, however, it sometimes involves obtaining benefits without initially depriving anyone of money or valuables. As an example a drivers license obtained by way of false statements made in an application for the same, subsequently used for further fraud. GR8DAN (talk) 14:13, 18 November 2014 (UTC)