Assuming that the word fraud has German origins, I used to get it confused with Freud, and wondered how it made a connection together. Maybe a scientific bank crime, to be imaginative?
A childhood belief about foreign languages

others believed things like this
- I used to think Freud was pronounced frood, and that "Froid" was a separate person with a different name!— Gracie
- We would drive by UNION BANK here in California and I would say "Onion bank!" My Mom would bust up laughing.— BINGO
- I used to believe the bank "scottish widows" was run by widows, and only gave bank accounts to widows.— Angelmouse
- I used to think True Crime was a documentary TV show and not a genreAnon
- I used to believe that 'bankruptcy" meant that you were actually going to rob a bank — Mindy
- i used to believe that if you were broke that you could go to the bank and get money for free!— Karianne