The difference between Fraud and Quackery
When used as nouns, fraud means the crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics, whereas quackery means the practice of fraudulent medicine, usually in order to make money or for ego gratification and power.
Fraud is also verb with the meaning: to defraud.
check bellow for the other definitions of Fraud and Quackery
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Fraud as a noun (law):
The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics.
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Fraud as a noun:
Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain.
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Fraud as a noun:
The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.
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Fraud as a noun:
A person who performs any such trick.
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Fraud as a noun (obsolete):
A trap or snare.
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Fraud as a verb (obsolete):
To defraud
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Quackery as a noun (legal, medicine, uncountable):
The practice of fraudulent medicine, usually in order to make money or for ego gratification and power; health fraud.
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Quackery as a noun (countable):
An instance of practicing fraudulent medicine.