Crowdfunding to ask for financial help before false illness with the excuse of people's health as an aggravated scam. An abuse of citizens' good faith
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.51302/ceflegal.2023.19359Keywords:
aggravated fraud, people's health, social utility asset, crowdfundingAbstract
Analysis of the court cases in which some people pretend a false illness, their own or their children's, in order to raise funds to help those diseases that do not exist, so that even the petitioners point out the aid or funds to fight these pretended diseases.
In this way, a fraud to the health factor it is assumed, which entails an aggravated fraud according to article 250.1.1º of the Criminal Code, since using people's health as an instrument to promote deception and asset detachment of many people. The asset detachment takes place in a kind of «crowdfunding» with the intention of helping a person with a disease that is false or apparent.
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