Fraud

Fraud (escroquerie, in French law) is the offense of deceiving a person, through a false name, a false status or fraudulent maneuvers, in order to obtain money or property from them. In France it is defined by Article 313-1 of the Penal Code. In clairvoyance, it can involve staging a spell that needs lifting, inventing a danger to sell a ritual, or promising a quantified result. In France, a victim can file a complaint at a police station, with the gendarmerie or with the public prosecutor, even after paying of their own free will.