• RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    There is no mention of any consideration (a legal term meaning he didn’t promise them anything in return) provided by the “boyfriend”.

    This would not be fraud under English common law.

    • onslaught545@lemmy.zip
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      You don’t have to promise anything in return for it to be fraud. If I start a Go Fund Me because I have cancer when I really don’t have cancer, the people donating aren’t promised anything in return. It’s still fraud.