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.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month 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.