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It's a scheme to get money by being dishonest; so it's stealing.


>get money by being dishonest; so it's stealing.

That isn't the definition of stealing. In fact I would argue, while it is dishonest, it isn't stealing in slightest. Stealing means you took something, without agreement, that rightfully belongs to someone else. The scheme is more accurately described as fraud than stealing.




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