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Noun: positive fraud
  1. Actual deceit; concealing something or making a false representation with an evil intent to cause injury to another
    "The seller's deliberate misrepresentation of the car's condition was a clear case of positive fraud";
    - fraud in fact

Derived forms: positive frauds

Type of: fiddle [Brit, informal], fraud