Mail Fraud is a federal crime in the United States and is defined as using the mail system to intentionally defraud someone out of money or property. It involves using the U.S. Postal Service or other private or commercial mail carriers to send fraudulent or deceptive material with the intent to deceive or swindle someone out of money or property. Types of Mail Fraud include false billing, fake lottery and sweepstakes, pyramid schemes, credit card fraud, charity fraud, and advance fee fraud.
Mail Fraud
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Pattern Jury Instructions from the 11th Circuit Federal Court of Appeals. For more information and to use the online Instruction builder please visit http://www.ca11.uscourts.gov/pattern-jury-instructions
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The Fraud: A random few of the many, many examples of mail and wire fraud include things like sending invoices, running crooked online auctions, or even something as simple as stealing from a neighbor's mailbox to find checks or prescriptions or credit cards offers and the like.
If a charge of mail fraud turns into a conviction, you face up to $250,000 in fines and imprisonment for up to 20 years. If the mail fraud is in connection with a presidentially declared major disaster or emergency, or one that effects a financial institution, then enhanced penalties will apply.
A person commits mail fraud when he engages in a scheme to defraud, with intent to defraud, and uses the mails in furtherance of that scheme. A scheme to defraud means depriving someone of property by deceitful or dishonest means.
Penalties. Mail Fraud is punishable by imprisonment for 20 years, a fine, or both. There are two subsets of Mail Fraud punishable by a $1,000,000 fine, 30 years' incarceration, or both.
When mail is stolen and used to defraud or steal someone else's property or identity it is a federal crime punishable by long prison sentences. Because mail moves over the entire country the government regulates the mail service and therefore crimes committed involving the mail are federal.