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The company received $10 million under false pretenses, the indictment says. AllHere, which came out of Harvard Innovation Labs, created an AI chatbot that was supposed to help reduce student ...
Under common law, false pretense is defined as a representation of a present or past fact, which the thief knows to be false, and which he intends will and does cause the victim to pass title of his property. That is, false pretense is the acquisition of title from a victim by fraud or misrepresentation of a material past or present fact.
The requisite elements of perhaps the most general form of criminal fraud, theft by false pretense, are the intentional deception of a victim by false representation or pretense with the intent of persuading the victim to part with property and with the victim parting with property in reliance on the representation or pretense and with the ...
The head of an education technology startup that created a highly touted chatbot for the Los Angeles school system has been arrested and charged with fraud.
For example, a pretexter using false pretenses either to get a consumer's address from the consumer's bank, or to get a consumer to disclose the name of their bank, would be covered. The determining principle is that pretexting only occurs when information is obtained through false pretenses.
Amanda Leeann Porter, 44, is facing identity theft, grand theft, and false impersonation charges Fake nurse oversaw dozens of patients at multiple hospitals, investigators say Skip to main content
A romance scam is a confidence trick involving feigning romantic intentions towards a victim, gaining the victim's affection, and then using that goodwill to get the victim to send money to the scammer under false pretenses or to commit fraud against the victim.
This column really is about the rewards of declining to live under the bondage of false pretenses and unrealistic expectations. It’s about learning to tell the truth about yourself.