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Suppose Jim goes door-to-door selling vacuum cleaners at an amazing discount. To obtain the discount, customers must pay immediately, and the vacuum cleaner will be delivered to them in three to five business days. However, Jim possesses no vacuum cleaners and does not plan to deliver any. Jim has committed the crime of

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false pretense

Step-by-step explanation:

In criminal law the crime of false pretense is committed when a person get a property or cash through falsehood. In false pretense this money or property is gotten through fraud by misrepresentation.

For example, this salesperson promises to provide vacuum cleaners as an amazing discount. After the customers pay him, we see that he intentionally fails to deliver because he had no vacuum cleaners in the first place.

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