• onslaught545@lemmy.zip
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    3 days ago

    Not really, no. It’s still using deception for material gain through gift giving. Maybe it’s more of an extreme case, but I was being hyperbolic.

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      It is materially different because a person with dementia can’t legally advocate for themselves so it is easier for an action against them to be considered a crime.

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        It’s still using deception for material gain. Just because it’s harder to scam someone without dementia doesn’t make it not fraud.