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The Postal Service is warning of “smishing” and other scams this year as millions of Americans prepare to celebrate various holidays. “While the holiday season offers merriment, joy, and ...
The U.S. Postal Service issued an alert in July to warn consumers to watch out for bogus stamps, noting that the number of counterfeit stamps being sold from online platforms has escalated.
Virtually all counterfeit stamps are forgeries for espionage. The values of 5, 10 and 15 pfennigs of the then Bavarian postage stamp issue with the portrait of Ludwig III fell victim to war mail forgeries. However, only unused pieces are known. Imperforated proofs were also discovered among these forgeries.
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Mail fraud was first defined in the United States in 1872. 18 U.S.C. § 1341 provides: Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, or to sell, dispose of, loan, exchange, alter, give away, distribute, supply, or furnish or procure for unlawful use ...
A postage stamp is a small piece of paper attached to mail that indicates that the postage (the cost of sending the mail) has been paid. Because stamps are sent on most mail, the stamp on a received item can be removed and placed on a different piece of mail to be sent, thus reusing the stamp without paying the proper postage.
Yisroel Kornik, 33, was charged with counterfeiting in a scheme to sell fake U.S. postage stamps made in China despite warnings from the feds.
A Prohibitory Order is a legal instrument issued by the United States Postal Service, against a mailer, on request of a recipient. Its effect is to criminalize any further attempt by a particular mailer to continue to send advertisement material to a particular recipient through the United States Postal Service. [ 1 ]