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In *A Frequency Dictionary of Japanese:

> 彼はよく詐欺に引っかかる。

is translated as:

> He is often caught committing fraud.

When reading that sentence I understood it as:

> He often falls for frauds (i.e: he is often the victim, not the perpetrator,
> of frauds).

Are both translations possible?

In 大辞林 they show this definition:

> だまされて仕組まれたとおりに動かされる。計略にはまる。

And even give this example sentence:

> 詐欺に引っかかる。

Which explains the first thing I thought of when reading the sentence.  
However, they also give another possible definition:

> やっかいな事柄や人物とかかわりあいをもつ。

Could this definition be used in this case to interpret the sentence like _A
Frequency Dictionary of Japanese_ did?
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grammar meaning
Usage of 引っかかる and double meaning
Although 引っかかる can have the meaning "get mixed up in" or "be involved in"
among other meanings (like
[these](https://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%BC%95%E3%81%A3%E6%8E%9B%E3%82%8B-610688#E3.83.87.E3.82.B8.E3.82.BF.E3.83.AB.E5.A4.A7.E8.BE.9E.E6.B3.89)),
I suspect that this translation might be erroneous. First of all, a search in
the Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese (cross-referenced with
詐欺) reveals only results relating to the meaning of "falling for scams" rather
than "committing scams" and I think that is what most people would understand
by the term as it appears in your example. Also, if you examine the
definitions listed at the kotobank link above, they all convey a sense of the
subject being imposed upon by some kind of undesirable circumstance which is
often beyond their control. This places the emphasis of what is 'bad' beyond
the subject and does not seem to fit with your example in which the subject is
actively engaged the 'bad' thing.

Secondly, it could easily be an error caused by the English definition "get
caught" which is ambiguous and requires context. For example, it could mean
"get caught (doing something illicit)" or "get caught (out by a fraudster)".
Perhaps someone was not careful enough in their translation. They saw a
definition of 引っかかる as "get caught" and assumed erroneously that it was the
former meaning rather the latter.

Furthermore, if you wanted to use 引っかかる in the sense of being caught doing
something illicit, I think it would make more sense to make it more explicit
by including who is catching them out - perhaps by using 警察に引っかかる and maybe a
phrase like 詐欺で to clarify that the subject is being caught out by the police
rather being caught out by the scam. But in my opinion that is beside the
point as I believe the most likely explanation is that the translation is
erroneous.

If, however, you are asking whether it is _ever_ possible to use 引っかかる in such
a way, then my answer may not apply.
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