fraud vs criminal offense

fraud and criminal offense both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
fraud	Yes	No	No	No
criminal offense	Yes	No	No	No

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

fraud: intentional deception resulting in injury to another person
criminal offense: (criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act

Other hypernyms of fraud include crime, criminal offence, law-breaking.

fraud (noun)	criminal offense (noun)
intentional deception resulting in injury to another person	(criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act
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