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>Fraud usually requires that the entity doing it gains something from it //

They got your money; so it's obtaining benefit by deception. If it says in the product specification that it does something that it doesn't do then it's fraud, which is criminal.

It's a de minimis form of selling you a product that they know to not include the features they sold.

But, police wouldn't pursue it (they don't even bother with burglary under O(£1000s) in UK); but you could sue for lost damages and you should in theory be successful.




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