Legal Definitions - entice

To entice means to persuade or tempt someone to do something, often by offering something appealing, especially when the persuasion is for an improper or illegal purpose. It involves using an attraction or incentive to draw someone into an action that might be harmful, unethical, or against the law.

Here are some examples to illustrate this concept:

• Example 1: Online Child Solicitation

  An adult online pretends to be a teenager and offers a minor expensive video game items and concert tickets if the minor agrees to meet them alone in a secluded park. The adult is enticing the minor by offering appealing incentives (video game items, concert tickets) to persuade them to meet, with an underlying improper and potentially illegal purpose.

• Example 2: Corporate Espionage

  A rival technology company offers a senior research scientist from a competitor a lavish salary, a company car, and a significant stock option package, knowing that the scientist possesses critical proprietary information about the competitor's unreleased product. The rival company is enticing the scientist with attractive benefits to induce them to leave their current employer, with the wrongful intent of gaining access to confidential trade secrets.

• Example 3: Deceptive Sales Practices

  A vacation resort advertises a "free luxury weekend getaway" to anyone who attends a 3-hour presentation about their timeshare properties. However, during the presentation, attendees are subjected to high-pressure sales tactics and are only offered a low-value gift card if they refuse to purchase a timeshare. The resort enticed potential customers with the promise of a free luxury getaway to induce them to attend the sales presentation, with the wrongful purpose of pressuring them into an unwanted purchase.