criminal fraud theme
The crime of intentional deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right, is featured.
Examples
Ardra conned the gullible inhabitants of Ventax II by pretending to be their devil in tng4x13 "Devil's Due".
34 total · 1 choice · 18 major · 15 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| voy7x06 | choice | The Ferengi, in league with Barclay's ex-girlfriend Leosa, played an elaborate confidence trick on the Voyager crew in an effort to steal Seven of Nine's nanoprobes. Barclay was hustled by a dabo girl. |
| ahh2x25 | major | Bruce stooped to forging checks in his wealthy aunt-in-law's name to fund his gambling habit. |
| ahh2x28 | major | The story is premised on Charlie defrauding his best friend and business partner, Ed, of around $100,000. In the end, Ed resolved to deduct the $60,000 loss as stolen money without reporting he had gotten the money back. |
| ahp1x09 | major | Charlie plotted to impersonate Walker in order to fraudently claim a $200,000 inheritance. |
| ahp2x37 | major | Cato Stone was convinced that his fellow lodge brother Harry had conned him into signing an agreement to pay Clarence Weems $50 a week for the rest of Weems' life. Also Harry accused Cato of some sort of real estate shenanigans when the land was bought. |
| ahp3x10 | major | The shady private eye Tomas Salgado suckered Evan and Janet out of sums of cash at every turn. |
| columbo1971e10x11 | major | Clifford Calvert worried that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission would uncover that the investment firm where he served as CEO had submitted fraudulent financial information (overvalued assets and the omission of significant liabilities). |
| columbo1971e1x03 | major | General Hollister murdered his accomplice to cover up their history of embezzling military funds. |
| columbo1971e4x01 | major | The villain of the story Milo Janus was embezzling funds from the gyms he was franchising to unsuspecting owners. His plan was to skip off his villa overlooking the Adriatic with two million in embezzled Swiss francs. |
| movie: Code 46 (2003) | major | The insurance fraud investigator William was dispatched to Shanghai to investigate a company that was suspected of selling fake health documents that people required to move about from city to city. Much of the first half of the story was bound up with William's investigation into the company. |