IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 3 days ago
how the fact is impresonating anyone with intent to decieve legal?
if I can elderly telling them in their insurers, is that legal?
if it’s legal for police to impresonate unions, it should be legal for me to impresonate a cop.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 days ago
it seems they’re reiterating that fraud is fraud and that they can’t rely on a specific defense.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I think if I tell you I am someone else, to con you to give me confidential information that should 100% count as fraud.
And if stealing an MP3 is a serious crime, stealing an organization confidential information should be way worse
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 days ago
there’s a very important part of fraud law (i’m high and haven’t done anything approaching practice in a decade so my wording is rough) that you must gain something for your actions to be fraud.
i think we may be thinking of different situations, for example when they call someone up, pretend to be the president of the union and tell them to vote a specific way, then they argue that didn’t gain anything because they weren’t the person they said to vote for even though they impersonated the president of the union for the purposes of misleading union members on the union’s and/or the union president’s politics. something like that was what i was thinking.