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**scemHeish** · 07-01-2012, 07:39 AM

Pretty sure the law considers it fraud for non-doctors to provide medical advice, non-lawyers to provide legal advice, etc. Licensing agencies take that very seriously. Then you have con artists who actually work as a teacher, drive buses, wear a collar, fake a badge.
Even if there is no economic motive, it's still fraud.

Nope not fraud, in the first examples, the offense against the state would be called something like "Unlicensed practice of ...", if they took money or value from the client, that would be fraud, sans the value, it would be malpractice (and if the fake doctor touches the person during an 'exam' it would be battery). As for the ones working a job unlicensed, again their is the jb, the economic value, but even then, it would likely be prosecuted as something other than fraud,

07-01-2012, 07:39 AM	#23
scemHeish Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 442 Senior Member	Pretty sure the law considers it fraud for non-doctors to provide medical advice, non-lawyers to provide legal advice, etc. Licensing agencies take that very seriously. Then you have con artists who actually work as a teacher, drive buses, wear a collar, fake a badge. Even if there is no economic motive, it's still fraud. Nope not fraud, in the first examples, the offense against the state would be called something like "Unlicensed practice of ...", if they took money or value from the client, that would be fraud, sans the value, it would be malpractice (and if the fake doctor touches the person during an 'exam' it would be battery). As for the ones working a job unlicensed, again their is the jb, the economic value, but even then, it would likely be prosecuted as something other than fraud,
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