{"id":573,"date":"2024-04-09T03:40:58","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T03:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.youthclic.hk\/topic\/cyber-crimes-fraud\/"},"modified":"2024-07-19T09:07:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T09:07:10","slug":"fraud","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/www.youthclic.hk\/en\/topic\/cybercrime\/fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fraud is a crime under <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hklii.hk\/eng\/hk\/legis\/ord\/210\/s16a.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Section 16A<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hklii.hk\/eng\/hk\/legis\/ord\/210\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Theft Ordinance<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hklii.hk\/eng\/hk\/legis\/ord\/210\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapter 210<\/a>). The crime is typically committed when a person (the fraudster) by deceit and with intent to defraud induces another person to act in such a way that results either in prejudice to that person or in benefit to the fraudster. The crime carries a maximum sentence of imprisonment for 14 years upon conviction on indictment.<\/p>\n<p>A key element of fraud is deceit, which distinguishes the crime from <a href=\"\/en\/topics\/Cyber-crimes\/#Theft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">theft<\/a>. \u201cDeceit\u201d necessarily implies an element of dishonesty. \u201cInducing another person\u201d means that there must be a causal link between the deceit and the subsequent action of the victim. The crime is not established if there is no inducement. Thus it would be a defence to show that the victim&#8217;s act was not caused by the deceit or that the victim knew the falsity of the deceit and was not affected by it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fraud is a crime under Section 16A of the Theft Ordinance (Chapter 210). The crime is typically committed when a person (the fraudster) by deceit and with intent to defraud induces another person to act in such a way that results either in prejudice to that person or in benefit to the fraudster. The crime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","topic-type":[4],"class_list":["post-573","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-type-cybercrime"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youthclic.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youthclic.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youthclic.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youthclic.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youthclic.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic-type?post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}