body: Isn't all fraud technically criminal, and whatever you can sue for civil fraud could also be sued by the government as criminal fraud? Is it just a matter of whatever the government decides to prosecute?
  
  
  What I am asking is, isn't all fraud illegal? Regardless of whether it is prosecuted or who.
  
  
  Just answering the definition of civil vs criminal fraud doesn't answer the question.
  
  
  
title: Isn't all fraud criminal?