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FRAUD

California Department of Real Estate

Updated 08-20-2026

FRAUD

The intentional and successful employment of any cunning, deception, collusion, or artifice, used to circumvent, cheat or deceive another person whereby that person acts upon it to the loss of property and to legal injury. (Actual Fraud — A deliberate misrepresentation or representation made in reckless disregard of its truth or its falsity, the suppression of truth, a promise made without the intention to perform it, or any other act intended to deceive.)

California Department of Real Estate Glossary

California Department of Real Estate · p. 16

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