Media Screener Taxonomy
- Concept ID (Qcode)
- trg:010010010
- URI
- https://graph.thomsonreuters.com/fact_type/risk/corporate_crime/securities_fraud
- Created
- 2020-03-24T12:00:00
- Modified
- 2020-03-24T12:00:00
- Retired
- Name
- Securities Fraud (Stock fraud, short selling, micro-cap fraud, penny stocks, boiler rooms, Ponzi schemes)
- Definition
- Fraud can cover a very wide range of practices. The base definition of Fraud is: wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain. With regard to securities fraud this relates specifically to selling non-existant or mis-represented investment instruments
- Broader
- trg:010010000
- Related
- trg:010020302