They defrauded one person out of £650,000 and another victim was the late grandmother of actor Jude Law.
There has to be intent to harm, intimidate, threaten, or defraud another person – not necessarily the person you are impersonating.
The attorney general also found that Devumi's sale of fake accounts using identifying details stolen from real people violated a New York statute that prohibits impersonating someone with an intent to obtain a benefit or defraud another person.
The law prohibits any "scheme or artifice to defraud" another person of money or property by means of "false or fraudulent pretenses, representations or promises".
Whoever passes, utters, publishes, or sells, or brings into the United States, or possesses any such false, forged, or counterfeited coin, with intent to defraud any person, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
This bill would provide that any person who knowingly and without consent credibly impersonates another actual person through or on an Internet Web site or by other electronic means, as specified, for purposes of harming, intimidating, threatening, or defrauding another person is guilty of a misdemeanor.
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any person who knowingly and without consent credibly impersonates another actual person through or on an Internet Web site or by other electronic means for purposes of harming, intimidating, threatening, or defrauding another person is guilty of a public offense punishable pursuant to subdivision (d).
"The benefit to the companies is that they may get defrauded if someone else is pretending to be that person.
Bill Singer is currently a shareholder in the Securities Practice Group of the law firm of Stark & Stark in New York, where he represents securities-industry firms, individual registered persons and defrauded public customers.
Meanwhile, can anyone break a million dollar bill? Bill Singer of RRBDLaw.com and BrokeAndBroker.com is a veteran regulatory lawyer; an outspoken critic of ineffective regulation; and a staunch advocate for the rights of smaller firms, individual registered persons and defrauded investors.
Bill Singer of BrokeAndBroker.com is a veteran regulatory lawyer; an outspoken critic of ineffective regulation; and a staunch advocate for the rights of smaller firms, individual registered persons and defrauded investors.
