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Fraude

Hola a todos,

La frase en cuestión es del libro Tinta invisible de Javier Peña.

Dicen que Susan Sontag podía pasar, en cinco minutos, de pensar que era la mente más brillante de América a convencerse de que era un absoluto y completo fraude. A todos nos ha sucedido algo así en algún momento, tenemos días mejores y peores con nosotros mismos. La clave estriba en los cinco minutos de distancia entre ambos picos; ahí radica la principal diferencia: el ego del escritor viaja arriba y abajo a velocidades pasmosas.

What does "fraude" mean here?

According to the DRAE:

https://dle.rae.es/fraude?m=form

1. m. Acción contraria a la verdad y a la rectitud, que perjudica a la persona contra quien se comete.

Sin.:
fraudulencia, engaño, timo2, estafa1, trampa, defraudación, engañifa, embeleco, insidia, trapacería, asechanza.

2. m. Acto tendente a eludir una disposición legal en perjuicio del Estado o de terceros.

3. m. Der. Delito que comete el encargado de vigilar la ejecución de contratos públicos, o de algunos privados, confabulándose con la representación de los intereses opuestos.

So "fraude", according to the dictionary, doesn't mean a person who commits fraud.

Does the author use "fraude" to mean (in this context) a person who commits fraud?

Thank you.
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Yes, the author is applying the noun fraud to a person who commits fraud.
Whether the academy agrees with that usage, it appears to be nonetheless accepted.
I found a few examples online where someone wrote «eres fraude», which can only mean the term was being applied to a person.
Other dictionaries state that the word may be used for both the act and the person doing the act.
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