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Is there a legal distinction between “phishing” and “simulated phishing”?

Phishing emails are illegal under laws such as the Anti-Phishing Act of 2005. Many companies are becoming increasingly aggressive with sending “simulated phishing” emails to their employees. Employees ...
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Is it legal for internet service providers in the EU to severely and systematically undercut advertised bandwidths?

I have a new mobile data plan with a contractually agreed-upon bandwidth limit of "up to 3 Mbit/s". To my knowledge, the "up to" only accounts for unavoidable reductions in ...
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Is it possible to prosecute Booking.com if a scam was done by another party through their portal?

Due to an in app message request to verify my credit card on Bookingcom I lost a lot of money. I reported it to my bank, Booking.com and the property whose account was compromised.The transaction was ...
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Is it legal for one email service provider to send emails using the exact identical email address of another email service provider? [closed]

Question - Is it legal for one email service provider to send emails using the exact identical email address of another email service provider? This happened to me in the last 3 days. The two ...
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Breaking Filipino laws outside of the Philippines

If some one breaks the laws of the Philippines in their own country and then visits the Philippines, what happens?
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Is Web Wed legal?

My question is very simple: are marriages arranged through Web Wed legal? Specifically: Are such marriages fully recognized in the United States? With the apostille service, are such licences fully ...
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Is it legal to use fake credit card to sign up?

I know that there are many scam sites in the Internet so I want to use a fake credit card generated by Luhn's algorithm. Is it legal to use it to sing up for an online pay service? I don't want to ...
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Is the game company required to help and take actions for a player who got scammed in the game for virtual currencies?

According to the answers in this question, you are legally responsible when scamming someone for virtual goods in a game. However, in most of the cases it is very hard to actually get any information ...
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