Comment on Anon knows an artist

• ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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”.

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  • Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Lying about who you are to silicate money under a fall pretense is absolutely fraud.

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    • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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

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• Boomkop3@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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

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  • marte@lemmy.eco.br ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    If you denounced this to brazilian police they would have a laugh and probably say something on the lines of “stupid gringos”

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    • Boomkop3@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Okay, and I’d be able to say I did not do nothing

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