Question 1

You live in a city ravaged by a category 5 hurricane. You have no electricity or running water. Emergency workers are slow to respond. You and some friends decide to go to the local store to get bottled water. The store has been abandoned. You break the windows, enter the store and take only the water and non-perishable food you think you will need. Seeing no way to pay for the goods, you leave. The police arrive at this point and arrest you. What law, if any, have you broken? What is your defense?

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Question 2

Students waiting to hear if prestigious business schools have accepted them into next year's class come across instructions on an online bulletin board posted by an anonymous hacker. The hacker posts simple directions for students to gain access to the business school's acceptance letters. By typing in a web address, www.businessschoolisus.edu/admissions/acceptance/johndoe.cfm, students can access their own letters only. (That is, the hacker tells them to replace johndoe with their own names to get into their own files.) Several students use the instructions and see their acceptance or rejection letters before they are mailed out and official. What crime, if any, have they committed?

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Question 3

A retail clerk jots down the names, account numbers and routing numbers (numbers on your check which instruct banking institutions which bank holds the account and how to process the check) of checks she handles as a cashier. She then purchases goods online, using the check information. What crime or crimes may she be guilty of?

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Question 4

Carla received a Christmas gift from her aunt, a check for $100. She adds a 1 in front of the $100 and the words "One Thousand" in front of the Hundred Dollars and No cents and cashes the check. What type of check fraud has she committed?

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Quiz 6: Crimes Against Property

Carla received a Christmas gift from her aunt, a check for $100. She adds a 1 in front of the $100 and the words "One Thousand" in front of the Hundred Dollars and No cents and cashes the check. What type of check fraud has she committed?