Nomenclature Deception or Nomenclature Fraud is a modus operandi of the deceiver through which the deceiver present themselves to their target people, as if belonging from the community the target person considers friendly or has a preference to. It is a generic case of stolen identity of a community.

This modus operandi has rampant use in scams, political and communal propaganda, crime and commercial sectors.

The method seeks to exploit the trust factor and positive image of the community whose generic identity they steal.

In United Kingdom, Pakistani hoteliers and restauranteurs had been running in Indian Hindu names despite having Pakistani Muslim ownership.

The Hindu, a South India based leftist media house is known as rampant anti-Hindu among most of the Indians. However their name would deceive anyone as being pro-Hindu newspaper.

In United States there is a subversive apparent human rights organization named Hindus For Human Rights which appears as an advocacy group working for the human rights of the Hindus however they dehumanize the Hindus themselves and talks about the human rights of Muslims in particular and non-Hindus in general and largely get involved in maliciously attempting to discredit the human rights causes of the Hindu minorities outside India.

Another classic case of Nomenclature Con is Haaretz newspaper based in Israel. While Haaretz literally means 'The Land of Israel', which would convey an insinuation about the nature of the newspaper as nationalist, the newspaper has been rampantly anti-Israel and blindly pro-Palestinian in nature. Due to its seditiously biased coverage during Operation Iron Swords, the government funding through grants and advertisement was withdrawn through a resolution passed by the Knesset, the Israeli parliament.

The Muslim individuals sell things under generic Hindu names in India, beg in religious places under the guise of Hindus etc. There are a number of cases in which Muslims have taken the appearance of Hindu seers in order to deceive the Hindu devotees both for their funds and to discredit the image of saffron clad seers in the devotees' eyes.

Scamsters based in India eyeing the vulnerable western customers with western names and Pakistanis scam Indians through North-Indian names.

The purpose of such campaigns is to deceive the targets emotionally, physically and financially.