Concept in Definition ABC

According to what is established in general terms by the different types of legislation, the crime fraud is described as an act of damage or harm to the property or patrimony of another person. Generally, fraud crimes are considered less serious than others (such as murder or sexual abuse), but the variety of scam types makes it possible to do such a level of harm to others that the penalties are extremely high for the criminal.

Property and assets, objectives of the scam

Meanwhile, according to right, property is that direct and immediate power that someone has over a good or an object and therefore is becomes their owner and has the ability to dispose of them and only attending the limitations that establishes the law current.
And heritage is the set of rights and assets that correspond to a natural or legal person.

Both, heritage and property, are the preferential objects of the scams

In the act of fraud, a person decides to act against another by violating or destroying her property with the aim of making a profit out of such a situation. This detail is important since, since there is no personal benefit, it would not be talking about a fraud but a mere destruction or violation of property. In this sense, scams are usually carried out by individuals or

organizations criminal acts that work by obtaining profits, money or material goods through the confidence or the ignorance of the injured.

For the law, the central act of the fraud is the deception that is established from one party to the other (the injured party), and the consequent obtaining of its own benefits from that deception. Damage to a person's property or assets can be very varied and not necessarily material. For example, a typical scam case is one in which a non-legal company pretends to sell services to individuals to extract money from them (for example, sale of tour packages at the hands of an organization illicit). The client It gives them the money to receive this tourist offer, but the company in question never complies with it. The customer is left without his money and without his purchased service while the company gets the money.

Normally, companies that function as illicit organizations and carry out actions such as those mentioned tend to almost disappear magically from its facilities after perpetrating one or more scams since it is common that after being noticed the illicit behavior for several victims, the pertinent complaints are made before the authorities and they intervene in the physical place where the made the scam final.

Unfortunately in very few cases people scammed in these terms manage to get their money back or be compensated in any way since scammers plot their criminal actions in such a way, making it practically impossible for the money invested to be recovered and cheated. They do not usually have anything to the name of him, they use false names and denominations, among other issues.

The spectacularization of the scam

It should be noted that in recent years, the mass media, especially TV, with that tremendous power that gives the image, they have developed special content from which commercial scams are denounced and consumers. Evidence of them is shown, the testimonies of the people affected by them are presented and many times the faces of the scammers who are rebuked in their place of misdeeds, certainly generating very tense situations that usually end with violence physical in the face of the desperation expressed by the scammed people and the police intervention.

Emotional scams

On the other hand, a scam can also involve damage moral that has nothing to do with economics and that the scammer inflicts on a person to obtain benefits from him, from his position, from his name, or on his defect to affect her reputation (for example, portraying a person as a criminal so that he cannot get a job and thus obtain his Benefits).

Likewise, there is and is very common scam to feelings of someone and that it is caused by a loved one, affection, family member, who hurts her deeply with some lie, slander, among other options and the affected person feels extremely affected.

Scams can be exacerbated when they deal with essentials for life (e.g. For example, when they are based on the theft of food or the failure to provide basic services such as health and education), on the abuse of relationships, on the artistic or cultural heritage of a community, among other cases.

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