Q: If someone sells me a link card and I use it and it's someone else's wat can I be charged with
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You could be charged with a number of both state and federal crimes as follows:
1. Since each Link card is associated with a certain person and requires a password for its use, both of you (the seller and buyer) may be charged with conspiracy to defraud state agency, bank fraud, wire fraud,
2. Since you would be using someone else's Link card and password, you may be additionally charged with identity theft, credit card (or bank card) fraud, and insurance fraud, (since the card is issued to certain indigent persons from the state resources connected to unemployment insurance),
3. If you use the Link card in other state as described above, that will also trigger potential federal criminal charges or wire fraud, bank fraud, and defrauding a governmental or state agency as you activities would be crossing the state lines.
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Let's see:
Bank fraud, state unemployment insurance fraud, wire fraud, false identity fraud, perjury, theft of services are possible criminal charges under certain conditions.
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