Spyke
reddthat.com

Fraud, great

Did you report them to their local authorities yet?

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The comment was talking about "reporting to authorities" so this was about the legal definition of fraud, not the lexical one.

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I don't think literally anywhere in the world would this actually be considered illegal.

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shneancyreply
lemmy.world

real talk, how do you report someone in a different country to authorities? Especially with such a borderline specific reason like lying about where you live to get more clients, he's still doing the work after all

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lemmy.blahaj.zone

Call their local police office. For something like this, literally nothing will happen. Ever. No matter what. Online fraud is damn near unenforced.

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programming.dev

Why would this even classify as fraud? Lying about where you currently are on an internet profile isn't a crime.

The only possible case for fraud would be if the artist promised to use part of the money to help with Ukrainian efforts or whatever. Instead, he just played everyone by being vague, assuming all he did was change his location and open "emergency commissions".

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That's the catch, he wasn't asking for money, he was offering his service. If I make an account on xitter and claim to be a Cambodian artist, is it fraud if people commission me because I'm not actually Cambodian, despite getting the art they asked for?

It's obviously misleading, but claiming fraud, legally speaking, needs more than just an unimportant detail being false

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Boomkop3reply
reddthat.com

I am not familiar with Brazilian law. But filing a form is quicker and easier than figuring out whether their enforcement agencies do their job

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lemmy.dbzer0.com

It’s a colloquialism, not a real threat of violence. It is similar to saying loose lips sink ships, but a more street oriented version.

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Do you remember people talking about that specific person or do you remember people talking about doing something like this themselves?

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I've known a few artists and have long held the belief that the art being produced is secondary to the artist themselves.

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