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Customer Payment Equals False Pretenses

This trap appears as a wrong-answer choice in 1 active question. Spotting how it is built is the repair: read each example's “why it's attractive” before the “why it's wrong.”

Subject distribution

  • CRIMINAL1

Example wrong choices

  • 19554_prayer_trail_cashbox · CRIMINAL · Choice AEmbezzlement, because all theft by a worker from the business is embezzlement.

    Why it's attractive

    All worker theft is too broad.

    Why it's wrong

    All worker theft is too broad.

  • 19554_prayer_trail_cashbox · CRIMINAL · Choice BFalse pretenses, because the visitors handed the admission payments to Peter voluntarily.

    Why it's attractive

    Visitors voluntarily paid the business, not Peter by deception.

    Why it's wrong

    Visitors voluntarily paid the business, not Peter by deception.

  • 19554_prayer_trail_cashbox · CRIMINAL · Choice CNo theft offense, because Peter was allowed to touch the admission money.

    Why it's attractive

    Permission to handle is not permission to keep.

    Why it's wrong

    Permission to handle is not permission to keep.

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