Comment on Anon knows an artist
shneancy@lemmy.world 10 months agoreal talk, how do you report someone in a different country to authorities? Especially with such a borderline specific reason like lying about where you live to get more clients, he’s still doing the work after all
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Call their local police office. For something like this, literally nothing will happen. Ever. No matter what. Online fraud is damn near unenforced.
ICastFist@programming.dev 10 months ago
Why would this even classify as fraud? Lying about where you currently are on an internet profile isn’t a crime.
The only possible case for fraud would be if the artist promised to use part of the money to help with Ukrainian efforts or whatever. Instead, he just played everyone by being vague, assuming all he did was change his location and open “emergency commissions”.
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Lying about who you are to silicate money under a fall pretense is absolutely fraud.
ICastFist@programming.dev 10 months ago
That’s the catch, he wasn’t asking for money, he was offering his service. If I make an account on xitter and claim to be a Cambodian artist, is it fraud if people commission me because I’m not actually Cambodian, despite getting the art they asked for?
It’s obviously misleading, but claiming fraud, legally speaking, needs more than just an unimportant detail being false
Boomkop3@reddthat.com 10 months ago
I am not familiar with Brazilian law. But filing a form is quicker and easier than figuring out whether their enforcement agencies do their job
marte@lemmy.eco.br 10 months ago
If you denounced this to brazilian police they would have a laugh and probably say something on the lines of “stupid gringos”
Boomkop3@reddthat.com 10 months ago
Okay, and I’d be able to say I did not do nothing