collateral fraud
- A type of deception outside the main issue at hand
- The small business owner was a victim of collateral fraud when additional, unexpected charges appeared on his vendor invoices.
- Law enforcement uncovered collateral fraud when they found cooked books unrelated to the company's primary financial statements.
- In her lawsuit, the plaintiff alleged collateral fraud, claiming that falsities were purposefully hidden within the tangential details.
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