On Wed, 07 May 2008 10:38:15 -0700, XS11E <xs11e@mailinator.com>
wrote:
>The Ghost of General Lee <ghost@general.lee> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 7 May 2008 09:19:59 -0400, "Bill Kearney"
>> <wkearney99@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> She decides to get even and tells Verizon the phone is stolen.
>>>> So now it cannot be used.
>>>
>>>So file a police report. She's commited fraud.
>>
>> How? She didn't commit fraud. The worst she did was filing a
>> false police report, which is a completely different crime. But
>> she won't get charged with that, either. The phone service was in
>> her name, ergo, the phone was presumed to belong to her.
>
>But she KNEW the phone wasn't stolen, ergo, filing a false report.
>
In the absence of a confession by her, proving it would be next to
impossible. She'd never be charged.