theillegalactivityofprovidingfalseinformationto someone so that they willinvestin something:The SECinvestigatesallegationsofinternetinvestmentfraud.The two men werechargedwithrunninganinvestmentfraudscheme.(Definition ofinvestment fraudfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofinvestment fraud
investment fraudWiretaps based on information gleaned from a confidential co-conspirator are alleged to detail the existence of a $2 billioninvestmentfraud.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The results from both studies demonstrated there is a need better to educate and inform investors about capital markets andinvestmentfraud.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He was a manager at a private equity firm before being sentenced to prison forinvestmentfraud.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.There are almost daily instances ofinvestmentfraud.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0The claims for these devices have been found to be incorrect pseudoscience and some were found to be tied to investment frauds.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/investment-fraud##
