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What law would you say is broken?
by mieseratte 7y ago
What law would you say is broken?
- polymatter 7y agoFraud mostly. Depending on specifics also impersonating an official/officer of the law and unauthorised access to information.
- gknoy 7y agoIn the example he gave, he was impersonating a phone company employee, not an officer of the law.
- testvox 7y agoIts not fraud, at least not as federally defined because that only covers money, property, or "depriv[ing] another of the intangible right of honest services". It does not cover information.
- ummwhat 7y agoComputer fraud and abuse act.
- deleted 7y ago[deleted]
- Amorymeltzer 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_engineering_(security)#Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_engineering_(security)#... Such pretexting is a fairly typical beginning for social engineering "hacks" we hear about all the time.