Listen to the news and you’ll hear a lot of seemingly different illegal activities described as fraud. Sometimes, it may seem like just about anything that involves stealing is labeled fraud, and that new types of fraud are being invented every day.

This isn’t completely untrue, especially with the ever-evolving array of new technologies that we use to aid us in our daily lives. As technology and communication methods change, methods of fraud constantly change as well. To better understand fraud charges, you have to understand what constitutes fraud and how it is [...]