41. U.S. Postal Service Mail Fraud Mastersort, of Santa Ana, CA, agreed to pay $3 million in restitutionafter pleading guilty last fall to two counts of mail fraud. http://www.directmag.com/ar/marketing_usps_bilked_postage/

A PRIMEDIA Publication Campaigns Opinions/Columns B-to-B News/Stories Catalog/Retail ... Contact the Staff Sponsored Links USPS Bilked in Postage Scam PATRICIA ODELL Direct, Feb 1, 2003 Print-friendly format E-mail this information A direct mail lettershop and its production manager bilked the U.S. Postal Service out of millions of dollars by falsifying reports and using them to obtain refunds on postage, according to court documents. Mastersort, of Santa Ana, CA, agreed to pay $3 million in restitution after pleading guilty last fall to two counts of mail fraud. The firm's former production manager, Jayprakash Dhanak, pleaded guilty to one count. He is likely to receive a maximum of 33 months in prison and may face a fine of up to $2.5 million when he is sentenced later this month, according to his attorney Edward Ord. A disagreement remains over the exact amount of the loss to the USPS, and that could affect the sum paid by Dhanak, Ord said. The U.S. Postal Inspection Service, which began investigating the case early in 1997, is unsure of when the scheme began, but is sure that it ended around April of that year. According to the indictment, the defendants used the internal identification numbers of their customers to manipulate the amounts of metered and permit mail sorted at the facility, and then submitted false reports to the postal service for refunds and deductions.

42. Reviewjournal.com -- News: Former State Lawmaker Convicted Of Mail Fraud Friday, February 14, 2003 Copyright © Las Vegas ReviewJournal. Former statelawmaker convicted of mail fraud. By JOHN G. EDWARDS REVIEW-JOURNAL. http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2003/Feb-14-Fri-2003/news/20689432.html

Search today's edition >> Advanced Search Recent Editions Th F S Su ... E-briefing CHANNEL DIRECTORY Auto Guide Community E-forums Employment ... Print the announcement forms Friday, February 14, 2003 Former state lawmaker convicted of mail fraud By JOHN G. EDWARDS REVIEW-JOURNAL An attorney for former Assembly Majority Leader Harley Harmon said he will appeal the former mortgage broker's Thursday convictions on 34 counts of federal mail fraud. Harmon, the grandson of one of Las Vegas' founders, was convicted Thursday morning by a four-man, eight-woman jury after about 12 hours of deliberations. He faces a maximum of five years in prison on each count. Harmon also faces a possible court order to pay up to $8.5 million in fines, plus restitution to victims and forfeiture of property to the government. U.S. District Judge Philip Pro set a hearing on forfeiture for Feb. 21 and scheduled sentencing for May 2. Defense Attorney Frank Cremen said he would appeal the verdict although he doubted Harmon, 55, would be allowed to remain free while the appeal is pending. Harmon was the owner of a mortgage brokerage that bore his name. Harley Harmon Mortgage raised money from individual investors and loaned the funds to developers and builders. The loans were supposed to be secured by real estate.

43. Six Arrested Over Nigerian E-mail Fraud Six Arrested Over Nigerian Email fraud ZDNet News - May 21, 2002 Six arrested over'Nigerian e-mail' fraud The Nigerian e-mail scam is over ten years old http://www.fightidentitytheft.com/2002_MAY21_nigerian.html

Home Identity Theft Credit I.D. Theft Laws Scam and Fraud Content: How to avoid scams Learn what to shred Nigerian email scam Ebay auction fraud ... PayPal email scam Six Arrested Over Nigerian E-mail Fraud ZDNet News - May 21, 2002 Six arrested over 'Nigerian e-mail' fraud The "Nigerian e-mail" scam is over ten years old and has possibly cost the victims hundreds of millions of dollars. There's no way to tell, really, because many people are too embarrased to call the authorities once they realize they've been had. Read a typical e-mail and see if you'd fall for their tactics. I received one of these emails last week, so it's clear this scam is still going on. Anyway... It looks like part of this ring of scam artists and drug dealers have been caught in South Africa by local police and detectives from the UK's Scotland Yard. Hopefully they can lock these boys up and keep them away from computers and fax machines for a few years. Fight Identity Theft Newsletter Have identity theft stories like these automatically sent to your email address every month.

44. Better Business Bureau 1910 mail fraud. The United States Post Office estimated that during1911, con men took in approximately 77 million dollars from http://www.pittsburgh.bbb.org/information.asp?ID=21

45. BBC News | Africa | U.S. Crack-down On Nigerian Mail Fraud year they have seized and destroyed twomillion letters from Nigeria at Kennedy Airportin New York, in an operation against an international mail fraud scheme http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_211000/211950.stm

Front Page World UK UK Politics ... Help Wednesday, November 11, 1998 Published at 06:03 GMT World: Africa U.S. crack-down on Nigerian mail fraud Postal inspectors in the United States say that so far this year they have seized and destroyed two-million letters from Nigeria at Kennedy Airport in New York, in an operation against an international mail fraud scheme. The inspectors say that American consumers are being defrauded out of one-hundred-million dollars a year by Nigerian fraudsters who send what are known asadvance-fee letters offering a business opportunity to earn millions of dollars. The letters purportedly from Nigerian government officials offer a twenty-five percent commission to the recipient for helping to transfer up to thirty-eight million dollars from Nigeria to the United States. The American officials said the postal authorities in Nigeria and Ghana were co-operating to break what they described as one of the longest-running fraud schemes. Last week, the Nigerian government placed large advertisements in the British press warning about the fraud. From the newsroom of the BBC World Service Advanced options Search tips Back to top BBC News Home ... South Asia In this section Dam builders charged in bribery scandal Burundi camps 'too dire' to help Sudan power struggle denied Animal airlift planned for Congo ... Zimbabwe constitution: Just a bit of paper?

46. CyberSpace Search! SEARCH THE WEB. Results 1 through 9 of 9 for mail fraud. http//www.legalmatch.com;More results on mail fraud at IxQuick.com. The http://www.cyberspace.com/cgi-bin/cs_search.cgi?Terms=mail fraud

47. Verizon: Phone Fraud Alliance Examine records on a regular basis to highlight potential voice mail fraud. Developa plan to both prevent and react to voice mail fraud. http://www.bell-atl.com/security/fraud/voice.htm

Learn all you can about the features of your voice mail system. Make sure that out-dial or through-dial capabilities in your voice mail system are deleted or blocked to prevent unauthorized access to local, long distance and international services. Ask your vendor to perform system testing and maintenance on site instead of from the field. Your voice mail system should have a different three-digit prefix than your PBX. Never publish the remote access phone number that connects callers to your voice mail system. Assign PIN numbers randomly, using the maximum number of digits your system will accept. Periodically change PINs. Your system should be programmed to terminate access after the third invalid attempt. Remove all mailboxes from your system that are not in use. Examine records on a regular basis to highlight potential voice mail fraud. Immediately deactivate access codes and voice mail passwords of departing employees. Develop a plan to both prevent and react to voice mail fraud. Share this plan with your employees and make sure they know what to do if your system is invaded.

48. Re: Mail Fraud World Collectors Net Message Boards Re mail fraud Follow Ups Post Followup Hummel Goebel Message Board Posted by http://www.worldcollectorsnet.com/hummel/messages/396.html

World Collectors Net Message Boards Re: Mail Fraud Follow Ups Post Followup Posted by BILL on January 18, 2003 at 17:10:27: In Reply to: Re: Mail Fraud posted by Carol Reid on January 17, 2003 at 05:40:38: : : If you have sent a money order to 158 Grant Street in Portland Maine and received nothing in return: : : PLEASE make sure you have filed your Mail Fraud Complaint: : : MAYBE YOUR ONE OF THE LUCKY ONES OR MARILYN HERSELF. SHE'S BEING SUED BY ME FOR FRAUD AND THE PORTLAND POLICE HAVE MORE THAN 1 COMPLAINT AGAINST HER .https://www.usps.com/postalinspectors/fraud/MailFraudComplaint.htm : : You can follow up on your complaint by calling the Fraud Group of the USPS in Chicago at 1-800-372-8347. : I have done business with Marilyn and I have no complaints she shipped out my item and I got it quicker then I exspected. I am very pleased with the outcome of our transaction. Some people just don't know when to leave well enough alone. Marilyn is a good trader in my book.. for all those who care not to think so that's your choice but you really don't know what you are talking about. Follow Ups: Re: Mail Fraud keith Re: Mail Fraud Detective Stevenson Post a Followup Name : E-Mail : Subject : Comments: : : : If you have sent a money order to 158 Grant Street in Portland Maine and received nothing in return: : : : PLEASE make sure you have filed your Mail Fraud Complaint: : : : MAYBE YOUR ONE OF THE LUCKY ONES OR MARILYN HERSELF. SHE'S BEING SUED BY ME FOR FRAUD AND THE PORTLAND POLICE HAVE MORE THAN 1 COMPLAINT AGAINST HER .https://www.usps.com/postalinspectors/fraud/MailFraudComplaint.htm : : : You can follow up on your complaint by calling the Fraud Group of the USPS in Chicago at 1-800-372-8347. : : I have done business with Marilyn and I have no complaints she shipped out my item and I got it quicker then I exspected. I am very pleased with the outcome of our transaction. Some people just don't know when to leave well enough alone. Marilyn is a good trader in my book.. for all those who care not to think so that's your choice but you really don't know what you are talking about.

49. WOUB Online - Parkersburg Woman Pleads Guilty To Mail Fraud Parkersburg Woman Pleads Guilty to mail fraud February 4, 2003. AParkersburg woman is facing a prison term and a hefty fine after http://woub.org/news/Stories/2003/February/020403-02.html

Parkersburg Woman Pleads Guilty to Mail Fraud February 4, 2003 A Parkersburg woman is facing a prison term and a hefty fine after pleading guilty Tuesday to mail fraud charges. Federal investigators say 46 year-old Leona West embezzled more than $300,000 while working for the West Virginia Department of Health of Human Resources. Authorities say West caused more than 400 benefit checks to be printed and mailed to various post office boxes opened in her name. The scheme was uncovered when a welfare recipient was told that her benefits had run out. Sentencing is set for April 18, at which time West could receive up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Home Search News Television ... Ohio University

50. Las Vegas Mercury: Cheap Wisdom: Mail Fraud You should get a copy right away. Thursday, January 23, 2003 Copyright© Las Vegas Mercury. Cheap Wisdom mail fraud. By Tod Goldberg. http://www.lasvegasmercury.com/2003/MERC-Jan-23-Thu-2003/20513828.html

Advertisements Tod Goldberg's new novel, Living Dead Girl , is in bookstores. You should get a copy right away. Thursday, January 23, 2003 Cheap Wisdom: Mail fraud By Tod Goldberg I'm here to admit that I have allegedly broken the law and may have destroyed a relationship. Consider this the letter I'd send George Knapp from prison. After dispensing with the various ads for real estate agents and their scum-sucking ilk, I scuttled the royalty statement into the bathroom for 11 minutes of hard viewing and then returned to see who had belatedly sent us a Yuletide greeting. The post office had placed the card into a tidy-looking Government Bag for Missing Greeting Cards and had written various notes thereon indicating failures in delivery due to a lack of clear writing on the address label. I did a mental checklist of people who hadn't sent me a Christmas card and who had thus been ejected from my Rolodex of holiday greetings and decided that whomever this was didn't merit any special considerations seeing as they had such crappy handwriting in the first place and then pulled out the card expecting to read the usual "peace, love and a Democratic president in 2004" message. What I got instead was the following: Dear Tim

51. SFBG News | November 1, 2000 | Mail Fraud mail fraud How Prop. K mailers steal – and distort – Prop. L's argumentsBy Cassi Feldman. Campaign ads aren't exactly known for their veracity. http://www.sfbg.com/News/35/05/05oglies.html

November 1, 2000 news a+e sf life extra ... sfbg.com This Week Election Coverage live election coverage Reject Brown's lies editorial Features Clean Slate 2000 exclusive Guardian Endorsements exclusive Which District do I Live In? exclusive Follow the money News In this issue Election notebook Mail fraud Daly's city ... Chronicle Opinion Ending backroom planning opinion Mail fraud By Cassi Feldman The ads are replete with falsehoods and scare tactics, and don't even mention Prop. K. Here's a dissection of one of their worst flyers: "Rushed" ... Prop. K is the rush job The reference to "public review" insinuates that Prop. L backers somehow skirted the law – untrue. Prop. L was the result of months of community planning. Prop. K, on the other hand, was drafted at the last minute with help from developers and downtown lobbyists, and rushed in to the Department of Elections less than five minutes before the filing deadline. Although K promises to close the loophole that allows dot-com developers to flout the law, the Aug. 9 deadline for filing zoning administrator determination requests was apparently leaked in advance to key lobbyists. Eleven requests were filed in the two days before. "Dangerous consequences" ... for real estate speculators

52. Postal Service Complaints: Report Delivery Problems, Mail Fraud - GovSpot.com Mail Delivery Report delivery problems to local post office. MailFraud USPS describes mail fraud and the reporting process. Mail http://www.govspot.com/complaint/postalservice.htm

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53. Keith's Mail Fraud Charges mail fraud? Or Charge? Maydak was convicted on charges of mail fraudfor the letter his attorney sent to AT T demanding payment. http://www.kmf.org/maydak/mailfraud.html

Mail Fraud? Or Does The United States Post Office Deliver Overnight for No Additional Charge? We don't understand what that means, but that was her testimony. if it had been sent by UPS, it would have been recorded. (UPS is not considered mail). The letter is dated Overnight for 29 cents? The Friends of Keith Maydak

54. Mail Fraud: Limiting The Limitless December 1994 mail fraud Limiting The Limitless By Ellen S. Podgor For example,a breach of contract in itself would not constitute mail fraud. http://www.criminaljustice.org/CHAMPION/ARTICLES/94dec01.htm

December 1994 Mail Fraud: Limiting The Limitless By Ellen S. Podgor Ellen S. Podgor is an Associate Professor of Law at Georgia State University College of Law, Atlanta, Georgia. She is the author of White Collar Crime In a Nutshell (West, 1993), and is also Co-Chair of the Ethics Advisory Committee and Vice-Chair of the NACDL 8300 Task Force. One thinks of the mail fraud statute as omnipotent and omnipresent, with prosecutors often selecting this charge as a convenient tool for pursuing alleged criminal conduct. Jed Rakoff called mail fraud the prosecutor's "Stradivarius" and "Colt 45." Justice Burger termed it the "stopgap" provision. I continue to maintain that it is the prosecutor's "Uzi." Despite its overwhelming nature, however, there are limits to this statute. This article selects seven lines of attack that may help in curtailing mail fraud's continued expansion. The present mail fraud statute (18 U.S.C. section 1341) "emanates from an 1872 recodification of the Postal Act." In its inception the postal system served as the crux of the offense. Although a "mailing" is still a jurisdictional component of this offense, the central focus has shifted to the "scheme to defraud" element of the statute. The basic "elements of the present day offense are: 1) a scheme devised or intending to defraud or for obtaining money or property by fraudulent means, and 2) use or causing the use of the mails in furtherance of the fraudulent scheme."

55. [Suespammers] FW: Spam, Mail Fraud/Scam, Promotion Of Theft Of Cable Services Fr Suespammers FW Spam, mail fraud/Scam, Promotion of Theft of Cable Services fromCSC. Robin Croley robin.croley@intur.net Fri, 15 Mar 2002 194632 0600 http://mail.spamcon.org/pipermail/suespammers/2002-March/002509.html

[Suespammers] FW: Spam, Mail Fraud/Scam, Promotion of Theft of Cable Services from CSC Robin Croley robin.croley@intur.net Fri, 15 Mar 2002 19:46:32 -0600 Previous message: [Suespammers] Morrison/Foerster suit against eTracks Next message: [Suespammers] How can I stop spammers sending my minor child x-rated/porn spam? Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] CSC is operating out of a blind po box at a MailBoxes Etc. I contacted the Corporate office of MBE and received a callback from their Corp Attorney. His name is Paul Reeve, his number is 858-455-8904, his email preeve@mbe.com. He assured me that they are going to aggressively follow-up on this matter. If you have received spam from CSC your contacting him will help. -Original Message- From: Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 05:09 PM To: preeve@mbe.com Subject: FW: Spam, Mail Fraud/Scam, Promotion of Theft of Cable Services from CSC Paul, here is the email I sent to the Buffalo office of the FBI. At the bottom of the email you will find the email that was sent to me including full internet headers that identify who the email was sent by. Good luck with this issue as I know that MBE is a reputable company and has no desire to be associated with this type of activity. -Original Message- From: Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 11:28 AM To: Buffalo@fbi.gov

56. ABCNEWS.com : Chemically Enhanced Mail Fraud Last year, the Postal Inspectors arrested more than 5,000 people for mail fraud violations,which range from check washing and identity theft to the sending of http://more.abcnews.go.com/sections/us/dailynews/checktheft000606.html

HOME NEWS SUMMARY U.S. Raw News POLITICS WORLD BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY SCIENCE TRAVEL ESPN SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT WEATHER.com REFERENCE LOCAL ABCNEWS SHOWS SEARCH ABC.com THE CENTURY EMAIL ABCNEWS.com SEND PAGE TO A FRIEND TOOLS AND HELPERS Washed Checks, Dirty Money Thieves Raiding Mailboxes, Using Chemicals to Lift Ink By Amy Collins June 7 The check was no longer made out to Visa, but to a mail-order house in Seattle. Parks was victimized by check washers, individuals who use chemicals to wash ink off checks and write in the name of a new recipient. Luckily he had an understanding banker and the lesson did not cost him anything. The crime is especially popular among users of crystal methamphetamine in Southern California, Arizona and Nevada, said Robert Bethel, the national public information officer for the Postal Inspectors. In Phoenix, 99 percent of the check washing cases involve drug addicts, Bethel said. Pamela Prince, a postal inspector at the Southern California division headquarters said some types of mail theft slowed in California in 1997 after assistance checks were no distributed through the mail. The biggest increase there, she said, has been in chemically washing of checks and identity theft.

57. IT @ UT - Advance Fee E-Mail Fraud (aka 4-1-9) Schemes Reported On Campus http://www.utexas.edu/computer/news/campus/0110/419scheme.html

Features IT Quicknotes IT Headlines About IT@UT ... Contribute Advance Fee E-Mail Fraud (aka 4-1-9) Schemes Reported on Campus The Office of Information Security has received reports of unsolicited e-mail messages that appear to be a variation of what have become known as the "4-1-9" or "Advance Fee Fraud" schemes. These schemes usually use the following format, or some variation: Someone you don't know sends e-mail telling you that s/he holds an important or trusted position. The letter alleges an overpayment of money to another account. You are asked to receive this large sum of money, possibly millions of dollars, into your personal bank account. You are told you have been chosen to collaborate in the transfer because you are trustworthy, and if you agree, you will be given a large share of the money. You may be told that this will be done without risk to you, but you must not tell anyone about this.

58. AGGREGATE INDUSTRIES EXECUTIVES INDICTED FOR PRICE FIXING September 26, 2002. PRESS RELEASE. AGGREGATE INDUSTRIES EXECUTIVES INDICTEDFOR PRICE FIXING CONSPIRACY, mail fraud AND WITNESS TAMPERING. Boston, MA http://www.justice.gov/usao/ma/presspage/Sept2002/Cowhig-Wiliam-indictment.htm

59. Mail Fraud By GOP . Excerpted from Howard Phillips Issues and Strategy Bulletin, June15, 1997 Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, who is chairman http://www.conservativeusa.org/mailfrd.htm

Home New! Donate! Take Action! ... The "Right Links" Mail Fraud by Republicans Masquerading as Conservatives? Excerpted from Howard Phillips Issues and Strategy Bulletin, June 15, 1997 Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, who is chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, deserves our appreciation for his stalwart defense of the First Amendment in opposition to those who seek to increase Federal regulation and subsidy of our political process. However, Senator McConnell must be rebuked for signing his name to a Republican fund-raising letter which deceptively seeks to associate the stance of the Republican leadership in Congress with the conservative convictions of many of those people receiving the mailing. RHETORIC VS. REALITY Senator McConnell asserts that "we have a lot at stake in the months ahead. Taxes... Social Security... Medicare... national sovereignty... the federal budget deficit... and more.... And quite frankly, our success or failure will depend on how united we are as conservatives and Republicans." Senator McConnell argues correctly that "The American people do not want deficit spending" and then asserts that "Bill Clinton has fought us every step of the way" on "GOP spending cuts".

60. FORMER GREY EXEC ARRESTED FOR MAIL FRAUD FORMER GREY EXEC ARRESTED FOR mail fraud Feds Allege Mitchell MosallemPadded Invoices March 25, 2002 QwikFIND ID AAN31P NEW YORK http://www.adage.com/news.cms?newsId=34298

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