False Cause

The False Cause fallacy is a logical fallacy related to the scientific principle that "correlation does not mean causation". A person is committing the False Cause fallacy by linking two or more unrelated actions or events with the other.

For example, after a particularly heavy rainfall, a person's goldfish dies.

False cause fallacy would be inferring that the two incidents are related, when in reality the goldfish was overfed, and it just happened to occur on a day with heavy rainfall.