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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)