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> According to U.S. federal prosecutors, the use of booter and stresser services to conduct attacks is punishable under both wire fraud laws and the Computer Fr
by andreareina 4y ago
> According to U.S. federal prosecutors, the use of booter and stresser services to conduct attacks is punishable under both wire fraud laws and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
How does wire fraud fit? What's the fraud?
- wildrhythms 4y agoMy understanding is that a person can be convicted of wire fraud even if no victim was actually defrauded; simply the use- or forseeable use- of interstate wire communication infrastructure by the perpetrator in some grander scheme to 'defraud' (which is a sweeping definition) can be used to convict.
- chatmasta 4y agoWire fraud is one of those catch-all crimes, like money laundering, that you can fit to any case without a clear victim or statuatory violation but with proof of obvious malicious/criminal intent.