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Submitting someone's work as their own. Taking passages from their own previous work without adding citations (self-plagiarism). Re-writing someone's work without properly citing sources. Using quotations but not citing the source. Interweaving various sources together in the work without citing. Citing some, but not all, passages that should ...
Pickpocketing "Dandy PickPockets Diving: Scene Near St. James Palace" (1818) by I. R. Cruikshank. Pickpocketing is a form of larceny that involves the stealing of money or other valuables from the person or a victim's pocket without them noticing the theft at the time.
In January 2012, blogger and comedian Troy Holm was ridiculed on the social networking site Facebook [18] [non-primary source needed] for stealing jokes and stories from comedian Doug Stanhope and posting them to his blog from 2010, claiming them as his own work, [19] including Stanhope's "Fuck someone uglier than you" routine, [20] which was ...
According to an AOL Jobs survey, almost half of the respondents (43 percent) admit to taking things from work to keep for personal use, though most of those report taking only small office ...
Barbara Furlow-Smiles pleaded guilty in December to stealing more than $5 million from her jobs at Facebook and Nike from 2017 to 2023. Her lawyer had asked the court to impose no time behind bars.
Larceny is the unlawful taking of another person's property with the intention to deprive the owner of it. If the stolen object is above a large value, then it is considered a felony and is called a grand theft. A petty theft is stealing an object with small value which would pass as a misdemeanor.
Some real-estate scammers operate by transferring a home's deed away from its rightful owners. The owner of a $137.5 million LA mansion says they're a victim of deed fraud and can't sell it.
In 1668 publisher John Hancock wrote of "some dishonest Booksellers, called Land-Pirats, who make it their practise to steal Impressions of other mens Copies" in the work A String of Pearls: or, The Best Things Reserved till Last by Thomas Brooks. [9]