• Fredthefishlord
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    6 days ago

    Lying about who you are to solicitate money under a false pretense is absolutely fraud.

    • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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      6 days 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