What is the maximum sentence for fraud?

The maximum penalty for fraud is life imprisonment.

Legal basis:

1. According to the Interpretation of the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate on Several Issues Concerning the Specific Application of Laws in Handling Criminal Cases of Fraud (implemented on April 8, 20 1/year), the amount of fraudulent public and private property is more than 3,000 yuan to110,000 yuan, more than 30,000 yuan to110,000 yuan, and

Whoever defrauds public or private property to reach the above-mentioned amount standard under any of the following circumstances may be given a heavier punishment as appropriate in accordance with the provisions of Article 266 of the Criminal Law:

(1) Sending short messages, making phone calls or publishing false information through the Internet, radio and television, newspapers and magazines, etc., defrauding an unspecified majority;

(2) defrauding disaster relief, emergency rescue, flood control, special care, poverty alleviation, immigration, relief and medical funds and materials;

(three) fraud in the name of disaster relief fund-raising;

(four) defrauding the disabled, the elderly or the disabled;

(5) Causing the victim to commit suicide, mental disorder or other serious consequences.

If the amount of fraud is close to the above-mentioned standards of "huge amount" and "especially huge amount", and it falls under one of the circumstances specified in the preceding paragraph or belongs to the ringleader of a fraud group, it shall be respectively recognized as "other serious circumstances" and "other particularly serious circumstances" as stipulated in Article 266 of the Criminal Law.

2. Article 266 of the Criminal Law: whoever defrauds public or private property in a relatively large amount shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance, and shall also or only be fined; If the amount is huge or there are other serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years and shall also be fined; If the amount is especially huge or there are other especially serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 10 years or life imprisonment, and shall also be fined or confiscated. Where there are other provisions in this Law, such provisions shall prevail.