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Definition of fraud : 1. A trap or snare.
2. An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of obtaining some valuable thing or promise from another.
3. Deception deliberately practiced with a view to gaining an unlawful or unfair advantage; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured; injurious stratagem; deceit; trick.

Synonyms:

cheating, drool, baloney, maneuver, put-on, antic, lampoon, thespian, trick, pseudo, bilgewater, dodge, taradiddle, gyp, quack, guile, sham, fraudulence, postiche, faker, trickery, art, boloney, artifice, pasquinade, tarradiddle, shammer, pretender, parody, contrivance, phoney, bosh, dissimulator, twaddle, spoof, machination, craft, impostor, tosh, duplicity, juke, prank, takeoff, burlesque, victimization, dupery, joke, mountebank, role player, blind, invention, tommyrot, dissembler, hypocrite, player, pseud, snake oil, histrion, travesty, caper, actor, ruse, mockery, true, flimflam, honest, wile, malingerer, finesse, sendup, cunning, skulker

counterfeiter, imposter, charlatan, criminal, deceiver, con artist, phony, con man, forger, defrauder, fake, cheat

charade, falseness, fakery, front, disguise, masquerade, deceit, gimmick, forgery, impersonation, pose, cover, show, mannerism, affectation, imitation, claim, stage, imposture, counterfeit, bluff, air, ostentation, pretense, guise, pretension, device, artificiality, facade

flimflammery, skullduggery, bunco, swindle, humbug, falsification, deception, subterfuge, hoax, stratagem

Usage examples:

• I am a fraud. - "Philo Gubb Correspondence-School Detective", Ellis Parker Butler.
• It's your fault, Vick; you always stir the pathetic note in me, you old fraud!" - "Together", Robert Herrick (1868-1938).
• No: I'm a fraud and a failure. - "The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet", George Bernard Shaw.