I know you are not and would never take anything you said as legal advice, I was just curious because of your name.

From what I have read in order to be charged with fraud ALL 5 of these things need to be proven:

(1) a false statement of a material fact,(2) knowledge on the part of the defendant that the statement is untrue, (3) intent on the part of the defendant to deceive the alleged victim, (4) justifiable reliance by the alleged victim on the statement, and (5) injury to the alleged victim as a result.

I put the first in bold because no false statement would be made. I would be signing up with email addresses that would be mine, I would be using my real name, real credit card and shipping to my real address. That is ALL of the info they ask for and none of it would be a misrepresentation. I would guess that makes it not fraud, I also know it isn't theft, so I don't know what laws it would be breaking.

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Posted by stout

Porte du Lafitte

Member since Sep 2006

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Posted on 3/5/15 at 4:09 pm to lsu480

Seriously though email it to me to look at. I won't order shite because, like you, I am not a fan of jail. I am just curious to read their legal disclaimers on it.

kaystout13@gmail.com

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Posted by WDE24

Member since Oct 2010

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Posted on 3/5/15 at 4:15 pm to lsu480

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(1) a false statement of a material fact

I'm referring a friend.

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(2) knowledge on the part of the defendant that the statement is untrue

I know I'm not really referring a friend.

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(3) intent on the part of the defendant to deceive the alleged victim

I'm intentionally doing this.

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(4) justifiable reliance by the alleged victim on the statement

Website is relying on my false statement.

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(5) injury to the alleged victim as a result.

Loss of $.

Just for arguments sake.

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Posted by JudgeHolden

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Member since Jan 2008

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Posted on 3/5/15 at 4:24 pm to lsu480

There is a federal computer fraud act. It is pretty broad.

If you are signing up as a "new user" and you are one person, I'd call that a false statement of material fact.

Plus if you drill down into the terms and condition of site usage, I'm betting they cover this.

It ain't worth twenty bucks, or twenty bucks times five, or twenty bucks times fifty. Period.

Maybe the thrill of getting one over on the site is a bonus for you. I get that. It still ain't a good idea.

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Posted by BamaChemE