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by Hnrobert42 1953 days ago
How was this fraud? He simply created a Patreon account. Yes, it happened to be used by someone else previously, but how is that his fault?
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> Yes, it happened to be used by someone else previously, but how is that his fault?

Fraud is deception with the intent of personal gain.

He wrote and published an entire blog article entitled "How I exploited existing youtube videos with a fake Patreon profile" in which he describes how he registered a Patreon account with the expectation of deceiving users into sending him money.

Didn't he also use images from the youtube channel to make the patreon account look like it belonged to the youtube user?
Why are you asking me?