mail fraud

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Noun

mail fraud (countable and uncountable, plural mail frauds)

1. (US, criminal law) A class of felonies, providing for a separate and additional federal penalty for any criminal offense whose perpetration involved the use of the postal system of the United States of America.
   • 1991, D. M. Maus, “License Procurement and the Federal Mail Fraud Statute”, in The University of Chicago Law Review, volume 58, number 3, page 1126:

     The mail fraud statute and its counterpart, the wire fraud statute, historically have been powerful instruments for prosecutors.