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Originally Posted by seagraham
Legal action on faking money to charity? I mean is this really any different than pretending to be a charity, calling a call list to get donations, then renigging on those donations and keeping it all? Im pretty sure there has been both civil and criminal cases on the above mentioned before. Anyone confirm?
1. It's "reneging."
2. 18 U.S.C.A. § 1343 (in relevant part): "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, representations, or promises, transmits or causes to be transmitted by means of wire, radio, or television communication in interstate or foreign commerce, any writings, signs, signals, pictures, or sounds for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both."
Now, it's not like you're going to get the FBI to investigate this, or get some US Attorney to bother filing charges given the paucity of evidence and the relatively low stakes involved here. If he indeed kept the money that he claimed was going to charity, he's probably violating that wire fraud law.