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0 pointsbraingenious3y ago0 comments

>These people are organized to perform identity theft, which is literally organized crime

This seems hyperbolic (though not impossible.)

If I were to attempt this scheme, would I have created an organized crime entity?

I think this whole thing is a novel example of grift, which is by definition bad. The idea of every bad act being turned into an excuse to necessitate federal police action is… weird.

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radarsat13y ago

You don't think this is a crime?

I mean, IANAL but I'm pretty sure taking in income while posing as someone else must constitute a crime.

If not, lesson learned I guess. (Don't know unless you talk to a lawyer or try to report it.) But if it is a crime, then yes, it's across state and national boundaries, so who else would have jurisdiction but federal police?

braingeniousOP3y ago

I was talking about organized crime.

If you break into a car while your buddy keeps watch, have you created a criminal enterprise worthy of being compared to mafias and terrorist groups? If so, what is meaningful about the concept of organized crime as it is currently used and accepted?

Are you aware that there are non-federal police that have the purview of arresting little mom and pop criminal enterprises? Not everything is an automatic RICO case.

radarsat13y ago

> If you break into a car while your buddy keeps watch

But we are talking about a case where someone has created a company that they are using to perform this fraud. If you found a company where you hire individuals to watch each other while they break into cars, yes, I think that would be considered organized crime.

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0 pointsbraingenious3y ago0 comments

>These people are organized to perform identity theft, which is literally organized crime

This seems hyperbolic (though not impossible.)

If I were to attempt this scheme, would I have created an organized crime entity?

I think this whole thing is a novel example of grift, which is by definition bad. The idea of every bad act being turned into an excuse to necessitate federal police action is… weird.

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radarsat13y ago

You don't think this is a crime?

I mean, IANAL but I'm pretty sure taking in income while posing as someone else must constitute a crime.

braingeniousOP3y ago

I was talking about organized crime.

Are you aware that there are non-federal police that have the purview of arresting little mom and pop criminal enterprises? Not everything is an automatic RICO case.

radarsat13y ago

> If you break into a car while your buddy keeps watch

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