The difference between Fraud and Trickster

When used as nouns, fraud means the crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics, whereas trickster means any of numerous figures featuring in various mythologies and folk traditions, who use guile and secret knowledge to challenge authority and play tricks and pranks on others.


Fraud is also verb with the meaning: to defraud.

check bellow for the other definitions of Fraud and Trickster

  1. Fraud as a noun (law):

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

  2. Fraud as a noun:

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

  3. Fraud as a noun:

    The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.

  4. Fraud as a noun:

    A person who performs any such trick.

  5. Fraud as a noun (obsolete):

    A trap or snare.

  1. Fraud as a verb (obsolete):

    To defraud

  1. Trickster as a noun (mythology, literature):

    Any of numerous figures featuring in various mythologies and folk traditions, who use guile and secret knowledge to challenge authority and play tricks and pranks on others; any similar figure in literature.

  2. Trickster as a noun:

    One who plays tricks or pranks on others.

  3. Trickster as a noun:

    One who performs tricks (parts of a magician' act or entertaining difficult physical actions).

  4. Trickster as a noun:

    An impish or playful person.

  5. Trickster as a noun:

    A fraud .