What is Mail & Wire Fraud?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_and_wire_fraud
Mail
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 any counterfeit or spurious coin, obligation,
security, or other article, or anything represented to be or intimated
or held out to be such counterfeit or spurious article, for the purpose
of executing such scheme or artifice or attempting so to do, places in
any post office or authorized depository for mail matter, any matter or
thing whatever to be sent or delivered by the Postal Service, or
deposits or causes to be deposited any matter or thing whatever to be
sent or delivered by any private or commercial interstate carrier, or
takes or receives therefrom, any such matter or thing, or knowingly
causes to be delivered by mail or such carrier according to the
direction thereon, or at the place at which it is directed to be
delivered by the person to whom it is addressed, any such matter or
thing, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20
years, or both.”
Wire
18 U.S.C. § 1343 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, transmits or causes
to be transmitted by means of wire, radio, or television communication
in interstate or foreign commerce, any writings, signs, signals,
pictures, or sounds for the purpose of executing such scheme or
artifice, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20
years, or both. If the violation affects a financial institution, such
person shall be fined not more than $1,000,000 or imprisoned not more
than 30 years, or both.”
