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Address fraud is a type of fraud in which the perpetrator uses an inaccurate or fictitious address to steal money or other benefit, or to hide from authorities. [1] The crime may involve stating one's address as a place where s/he never lived, or continuing to use a previous address where one no longer lives as one's own.
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 ...
The United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), or the Postal Inspectors, is the federal law enforcement arm of the United States Postal Service.It supports and protects the U.S. Postal Service, its employees, infrastructure, and customers by enforcing the laws that defend the United States' mail system from illegal or dangerous use.
A Southern California woman has pleaded guilty in a $150-million counterfeit postage scheme. Pictured are Postal Service trucks parked outside a post office in January. (Nam Y. Huh / Associated Press)
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Scripp News reporters sent surveys to SNAP agencies in all 50 states and Washington, D.C., and found at least 106,000 cases of stolen food stamps across 46 states, adding up to more than $70 ...
The Congressional Post Office scandal was the discovery of corruption among various Congressional Post Office employees and members of the United States House of Representatives, investigated 1991–1995, culminating in House Ways and Means Committee chairman Dan Rostenkowski (D-IL) pleading guilty in 1996 to reduced charges of mail fraud.
FBI, FTC aware of "coast to coast" toll scams Last April, the FBI reported receiving more than 2,000 complaints reporting smishing scams representing toll road collection services in three states.