If a person sends a work related e-mail – but sets the send time to be delayed until after one has left the office – is this considered gezel daas.
Answer:
If one is going to gain a benefit from this, for instance, if one’s boss will think that you are working overtime, and showing great dedication to your job, whereas in actual fact it was done in office hours, there it will involve geneivas daas.
As several cases in the Gemara show, geneivas daas applies where a person gain benefit or any type by means of misrepresentation. This applies even when a person (for instance) invites someone, in the know that the invitee will refuse, only to make a good impression. The same will apply to the case in point.
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