Fraud Empowerment

The power to become stronger with the acts of fraud and deceit. A variation of Truth Manipulation and Vice Inducement.

Also Called

 * Lie Empowerment
 * Facade Empowerment

Capabilities
The user of this power can become stronger when lying and deceiving the eyes of others with acts of fraud. The user who pretends to be someone else and deceives others can grow more powerful as they deceive more and more people in both fame and power.

Applications

 * Disguise Mastery
 * Lie Detection
 * Precognition
 * Truth Manipulation

Variations
Types of Frauds (Quotes Dante's Inferno)
 * Panderers and Seducers: "The panderers and seducers will spend eternity beaten, prodded and whipped by Lucifer's lieutenants."
 * Flatters: "My brethren in the Malebolge, we flounder in sewage and waste."
 * Simony: "Sellers of favors, crimes against the church. They are trapped in baptismal baths, their feet eternally in flames."
 * Diviners: "The fortune tellers should have known that they cannot see with the eyes of God. They walk with their heads backwards, their eyes awash in tears."
 * Grafters: "Great, winged demons tend to the grafters, who stole and embezzled in life. They are thrown into deep, vile pits."
 * Hypocrites: "The cloaks of the hypocrites appear regal and noble, and yet worn as punishment, each lined with crippling lead."
 * Thieves: "Thieves are held and bitten by serpents. The venom burns them to ash only so they may reform and suffer again."
 * Evil Counselors: "Evil advisers who used their forked-tongues for counsel serving their own ends. They stand ablaze."
 * Sowers of Discord: "They hold their heads and innards, the chaos they caused in life, cast upon them in death."
 * Falsifiers: "All thoughts of pain and suffering fall upon the falsifiers. Hear their wailing and be warned."

Known Users

 * The False Prophet (Religion)
 * Tobi (Naruto)
 * Itachi (Naruto)
 * Loki (Marvel/Mythology)
 * Trickster Gods (Mythology)
 * Lucifer (Religion)
 * Lex Luthor (DC)