confidence game vs fraud

confidence game and fraud both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
confidence game	Yes	No	No	No
fraud	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, fraud is a hypernym of confidence game; that is, fraud is a word with a broader meaning than confidence game:

confidence game: a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
fraud: the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme

Other hypernyms of confidence game include cheat, rig, swindle.

confidence game (noun)	fraud (noun)
a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property	intentional deception resulting in injury to another person
	something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
	the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
	a person who makes deceitful pretenses