The legal cases of contract fraud include: signing a contract in the name of a fictitious unit or using the name of another person; Taking forged, altered or invalid bills or other false proof of property rights as the guarantee; Without the actual ability to perform, trick the other party into continuing to sign and perform the contract by performing the small contract first or partially; If I impersonate my signature without knowing it, if I don't ratify it, I won't bear legal responsibility, and the signer will bear the responsibility; If it is ratified, I will bear the responsibility. If it is signed on behalf of others, it is an agency act. If I don't know, I have no right to represent or bear legal responsibility; However, if I know that someone else signed my name without denying it, or that I ratified it, the signature is binding on me and I should bear legal responsibility.
The prosecution standard of contract fraud is:
1, defrauding the other party's property for a certain amount. The so-called large amount, according to, for the purpose of illegal possession, defrauded the other party's property in the process of signing and performing the contract;
2, personal fraud of public or private property, the amount of five thousand yuan to twenty thousand yuan;
3. The person in charge directly responsible for the unit and other directly responsible personnel commit fraud in the name of the unit, and the proceeds of fraud are owned by the unit, with the amount ranging from 50,000 yuan to 200,000 yuan.
To sum up, signing a contract in the name of a branch by fraudulent means, if the circumstances are serious and the suspected amount is large, may constitute the crime of contract fraud. Criminal responsibility shall be investigated for this crime, and the sentence shall be divided into three grades. If the circumstances are ordinary, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years and fined. If the amount of contract fraud is especially huge and causes serious consequences, the maximum sentence can be indefinite; If the actor, for the purpose of illegal possession, fabricates facts or conceals the truth in the process of signing and performing the contract to defraud the other party's property, the amount shall be filed for prosecution; If the actor, for the purpose of illegal possession, fabricates facts or conceals the truth in the process of signing and performing a contract to defraud the other party's property, the amount shall be filed for prosecution.
Legal basis:
Article 224 of the Criminal Code of People's Republic of China (PRC).
Under any of the following circumstances, it constitutes the crime of contract fraud. In the process of signing and performing a contract, the other party is defrauded of property for the purpose of illegal possession. If the amount is relatively large, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention, and shall also or shall only be fined; If the amount is huge or there are other serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years and shall also be fined; If the amount is especially huge or there are other especially serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 10 years or life imprisonment, and shall also be fined or confiscated:
(1) Signing a contract in the name of a fictitious unit or others;
(2) Mortgaging with forged, altered or invalid bills or other false property rights certificates;
(three) to perform a small contract or part of the contract first, to deceive the other party to continue to sign and perform the contract, and to have no actual performance ability;
(4) After receiving the payment for goods, advance payment or secured property paid by the other party;
(5) defrauding the other party's property by other means.