The Legal Environment of Business: Text and Cases
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Author: Frank B Cross/ Roger LeRoy Miller
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Chapter 10, Problem 2BS
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Case summary:A person K, who is a student of LU, needs to pay a tuition fee to get a graduate degree. The person K does not have the money with her. To pay the debt, the person K sends an email to unknown people asking for financial help to help her disabled child M to get into a special school. In reality, the person K does not have any child.
To find: The crime committed by the person K.
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Cyber Scam. Kayla, a student at Learnwell University, owes $20,000 in unpaid tuition. If Kayla does not pay thetuition, Learnwell will not allow her to graduate. To obtain thefunds to pay the debt, she sends e-mails to people that she doesnot personally know asking for financial help to send Milo,her disabled child, to a special school. In reality, Kayla has nochildren. Is this a crime? If so, which one? (See Cyber Crime.)
Cameron is an accountant in the accounting department of Data Analytics Company. Cameron’s son’s college tuition is due within a week, or he cannot continue taking classes. To meet the due date, Cameron transfers funds from Data Analytics to a fictitious bank account, planning to repay the firm within one month. The transfer is discovered before the firm is repaid, and Cameron is arrested.
What crime, or crimes, if any, has Cameron committed?
What did Pavlo do that he thought would prevent MCI (
his employer) from coming after him if he got caught?
What did Pavlo do that he thought would prevent MCI (
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ledger. Gathered information about what his employer
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