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onslaught545@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

So, it’s not fraud if I tell my grandma with dementia that it’s my birthday once a week so she keeps giving me birthday checks?

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knight_alva@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Your grandma having dementia changes the formula a bit.

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- onslaught545@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Not really, no. It’s still using deception for material gain through gift giving. Maybe it’s more of an extreme case, but I was being hyperbolic.
  
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  - knight_alva@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    It is materially different because a person with dementia can’t legally advocate for themselves so it is easier for an action against them to be considered a crime.
    
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    onslaught545@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    It’s still using deception for material gain. Just because it’s harder to scam someone without dementia doesn’t make it not fraud.
    
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