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So if I sign up for a service with different email addresses to use the 2-week free trial over and over, I will be guilty of wire fraud?
by smnrchrds 7y ago
So if I sign up for a service with different email addresses to use the 2-week free trial over and over, I will be guilty of wire fraud?
- dlgeek 7y agoYes, and they'd probably throw a CFAA violation in there too.
- smnrchrds 7y agoWow! I shouldn't be surprised, yet I am, that three felonies a day was right.
- jfim 7y agoYes. For example, someone signed up for 58,000 accounts and used them to receive micro deposits (those small sums that are deposited into an account to validate that two accounts are linked correctly). They had their time in court: https://www.wired.com/2008/05/man-allegedly-b/ https://www.wired.com/2008/05/man-allegedly-b/
- zbentley 7y agoIntent matters. Scale of abuse matters qualitatively. The legal system does not operate like a computer program.
- 3xblah 7y agos/will be guilty of/could be charged with/