Talk:Mail fraud

A fact from Mail fraud appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 11 October 2004. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Great Train Robbery of 1963 is the best-known example of the type of mail fraud known as "theft from the mails"?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2004/October.

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Copyleft violation[edit]

Content literally lifted without attribution on a link farm site: http://www.fraudwatchernetwork.com/website/mail-fraud.html JavaWoman 04:47, 2 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I cannot find any copyright notice on http://www.fraudwatchernetwork.com/website/mail-fraud.html which presumably means it is not copyleft, but is standard copyright. Does that make this automatic copyvio? Tedernst 05:47, 4 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Of course it does. At least in the Netherlands every written work is automaticaly copyrighted, unless the owner explicitly copylefts it. This does mean that this would be a copyvio. Nazgjunk||(talk) 18:12, 19 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Excuse me for barging into this discussion, but can somebody tell me how the US Government manages to get away with pinning the charge of mail fraud on known criminals who they can't otherwise convict. Note - this is not a loaded question, I genuinely want to know!

Probably as a broadly-defined catch-all like income tax evasion and Al Capone. They just have to find any piece of paper sent through the US postal system with something dishonest on it and there could be a potential "mail fraud". Kingal86 (talk) 13:36, 27 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This is very easy to understand. Under Title 18, chapter 63 of the US Code, it is illegal to use the postal system to commit or further an illegal act. I just finished a case study for a law class where and individual found that 2 employees of the company he worked for were embezzling money from the company. Instead of reporting it, he tried to extort money from them to prevent him from turning them in. His biggest mistake was that instead of confronting them face to face, he mailed them a letter demanding payment. By using the Postal Service to commit his crime, he is guilty of mail fraud as he was using the government to assist him in committing his crime. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.203.189.206 (talk) 05:10, 23 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Great Train Robbery[edit]

How valid is a British robbery as an example of breaking a United States-specific law?

The Cleaners[edit]

I liked that pun at the end of this section. I really think Wikipedia should have more jokes like that other than the ones in here --FLaRN2005 (talk) 13:35, 9 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, I came in to comment on the pun at the end of that section too. Good deal!

UK Campaign[edit]

www.ThinkJessica.com - Kittybrewster ☎ 16:47, 17 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]