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Old Aug 17, 2013, 1:44 pm
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flyerred
 
Join Date: Jan 2011
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Originally Posted by TheChallenge
Why are you specifically only worried about wire fraud?

Anyways, wire fraud is one of the most ambiguous, broad, murky crimes that can be charged against someone. It's part of the reason why you rarely, if ever, hear of anyone being charged with "Wire Fraud" anymore. Most prosecutors and judges can't even come to a firm decision on what constitutes a "wire" or what classifies as fraudulent use of a wire. Prosecutors aren't going to risk their career attempting to send someone to trial, and attempt to set precedent for the sole charge of "Wire Fraud."

The Federal government cannot even come to a firm decision on if the internet is a "wire," if wire fraud can be considered for intrastate matters, or if certain activities are excluded from being prosecuted under the wire act.

With all things on the MS forum, do what you are comfortable with.
My interest is in finding out if manufactured spending, in any of its varied forms- amazon payments, money orders, or gift card buys and deposits, can be prosecuted at all. If not under the umbrella of wire fraud, then another felony? There are probably thousands of flyertalkers who are already engaged in this activity. The financial records are permanent and readily available to government officials if they're interested. Perhaps a credit card company were particularly annoyed by a specific high volume individual, the credit card company could encourage/ request criminal prosecution. Is there grounds at all, even by stretching the letter of the law, to prosecute someone for manufactured spending?

Last edited by flyerred; Aug 17, 2013 at 2:04 pm
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