Fraudulently recording steps, and the other example of you gave making calls to the API.
Legally, those API calls signify something in the real world. You are representing that the action/status signified by the API call happened in the real world. _It's one thing to accidentally or mistakenly call those APIs, but to do so deliberately if such action/status is not true is fraud.
By itself, that the API calls are fraudulent wouldn't matter. But in your case, the purpose of the fraud is financial gain: each API call earns you money. In the U.S., this would be (felony) theft by fraud, among other crimes. French laws are more complicated, and as I'm not French nor do I speak French I won't attempt to go into any detail as to what the specific crimes would be, other than to say it appears that your actions, if performed, would appear to constitute several different crimes.
[Note that in the U.S., intent matters, so fake API calls for purposes of QA testing, security testing, etc., isn't fraud...but could be a crime if performed without the website owner's permission.]
Legally, those API calls signify something in the real world. You are representing that the action/status signified by the API call happened in the real world. _It's one thing to accidentally or mistakenly call those APIs, but to do so deliberately if such action/status is not true is fraud.
By itself, that the API calls are fraudulent wouldn't matter. But in your case, the purpose of the fraud is financial gain: each API call earns you money. In the U.S., this would be (felony) theft by fraud, among other crimes. French laws are more complicated, and as I'm not French nor do I speak French I won't attempt to go into any detail as to what the specific crimes would be, other than to say it appears that your actions, if performed, would appear to constitute several different crimes.
[Note that in the U.S., intent matters, so fake API calls for purposes of QA testing, security testing, etc., isn't fraud...but could be a crime if performed without the website owner's permission.]