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You’d think the law could just say that you can’t pretend (via any mechanism, a signature or otherwise) to be someone else in order to receive some material gai
by baddox 6y ago
You’d think the law could just say that you can’t pretend (via any mechanism, a signature or otherwise) to be someone else in order to receive some material gain.
- tialaramex 6y agoIn the UK at least that is indeed a crime and I assume it's in one of the model criminal codes in the US. "Theft by deception" - basically you need to show intent to deceive and thereby permanently deprive someone of something of value. So "Lied about going to the same high school, she gave me her number" doesn't cut it, but "Showed my brother's ID to the dealer, drove away with a car" is definitely a crime.
- thaumasiotes 6y agoIt does already say that; that would come under the heading of "fraud".
- pessimizer 6y agoYou can do that passively by just not correcting people who assume you're authorized. If you require a clear cut act of deception in order to complete a fraud, such as signing someone else's name, it becomes very easy to prosecute.