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Mail fraud and wire fraud are terms used in the United States to describe the use of a physical (e.g., the U.S. Postal Service) or electronic (e.g., a phone, a telegram, a fax, or the Internet) mail system to defraud another, and are U.S. federal crimes. Jurisdiction is claimed by the federal government if the illegal activity crosses ...
About Category:Mail and wire fraud and related categories: This category's scope contains articles about Fraud, which may be a contentious label. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
Email fraud (or email scam) is intentional deception for either personal gain or to damage another individual using email as the vehicle. Almost as soon as email became widely used, it began to be used as a means to de fraud people, just as telephony and paper mail were used by previous generations.
The Maria Duval scam is one of the most successful mail scams in history, having defrauded millions of people out of at least $200 million over twenty years. Targeting sick and elderly people through a combination of personalized letters and personal information databases, it has been shut down in the United States in 2016, but is still ongoing in many countries.
Honest services fraud is a crime defined in 18 U.S.C. § 1346 (the federal mail and wire fraud statute), added by the United States Congress in 1988. [1] The idea of this law was to criminalize not only schemes to defraud victims of money and property, but also schemes to defraud victims of intangible rights such as the "honest services" of a public official.
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Pages in category "American people convicted of mail and wire fraud" The following 48 pages are in this category, out of 48 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Politicians convicted of mail and wire fraud (1 C, 73 P) Pages in category "People convicted of mail and wire fraud" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.