Best Answer: Decimals are not integers. Decimals are the same as FRACTIONS only in different notation. Integers are whole numbers which can be either positive or negative. Therefore, since they are not whole numbers, they cannot be integers.
Mortgage fraud is a criminal offense and primarily involves fraud against mortgage lenders. Generally speaking, it occurs when facts are misrepresented: the value of a house is inflated, or the lender is misled about the buyer's income, credit history or financial situation.
It is hard to place an exact value on the money stolen through insurance fraud. Insurance fraud is deliberately undetectable, unlike visible crimes such as robbery or murder. As such, the number of cases of insurance fraud that are detected is much lower than the number of acts that are actually committed.