fraud vs ruse

fraud

• Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain. 

• The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end. 

• A person who performs any such trick. 

• The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics. 

ruse

• An action intended to deceive; a trick. 

• Cunning, guile, trickery. 

• To deceive or trick using a ruse.