At what point does incompetence become fraud?

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[–]ShalomEveryone 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You aren't helping yourself with this word play.

No word play my friend, incompetence does not lead to fraud. If it did then it would not be called incompetence. Someone being incompetent is not trying to defraud someone or something.

Clearly if someone says they can do something they can't

If someone lies and said they can do something when they cant then it's not incompetence. It's fraud because that person lied about their ability in order to get money.

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But, as you yourself wrote the definition of incompetence:

inability to do something successfully;

Then being incompetent and lying about it is fraud, as you write, but it is ALSO incompetence. Otherwise it wouldn't be fraud to assert you can do something, if you actually can.