Wire fraud doesn't require that you're stealing money: > Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining mon

Wire fraud doesn't require that you're stealing money: > Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or *property* by means of false or fraudulent pretenses ... (18 USC 1343) Property here includes stealing services of value (in fact it even includes intangibles such as confidential info or goodwill, see Carpenter v. United States 484 US 19).