fraudulence

noun fraudulence

• fraud — deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage.
• deception — Deception is the act of deceiving someone or the state of being deceived by someone.
• trickery — the use or practice of tricks or stratagems to deceive; artifice; deception.
• duplicity — deceitfulness in speech or conduct, as by speaking or acting in two different ways to different people concerning the same matter; double-dealing. Synonyms: deceit, deception, dissimulation, fraud, guile, hypocrisy, trickery. Antonyms: candidness, directness, honesty, straightforwardness.
• hypocrisy — a pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really possess.