N.Y. Penal Law § 165.30

Current through 2024 NY Law Chapters 1-49, 52, and 61-117
Section 165.30 - Fraudulent accosting
1. A person is guilty of fraudulent accosting when he accosts a person in a public place with intent to defraud him of money or other property by means of a trick, swindle or confidence game.
2. A person who, either at the time he accosts another in a public place or at some subsequent time or at some other place, makes statements to him or engages in conduct with respect to him of a kind commonly made or performed in the perpetration of a known type of confidence game, is presumed to intend to defraud such person of money or other property.

Fraudulent accosting is a class A misdemeanor.

N.Y. Penal Law § 165.30