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[minus1972]

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can they offer that w/o perscription? lol. very nice bigbigsavings.

 

[sjshaw]

No, Gentle, it's not &quot;mail fraud.&quot; Your definitions of &quot;fraud&quot; are not prosecutable offenses. Only conduct specifically prohibited by statute, not Black's Law Dictionary, is a crime. Ordering free products for another doesn't fit the &quot;mail fraud&quot; statute.

 

[Yoshi2000]

I saw a game show in Japan, where a guy isolated himself in his apartment, and then kept on signing up for freebies. The show's goal was to see how long a person could survive that way.

I think he lasted 6 months.

 

From the USPS website...http://www.usps.gov/websites/depart/inspect/

&quot;The mission of the United States Postal Inspection Service is to protect the U.S. Postal Service, its employees and its customers from criminal attack, and protect the nation?s mail system from criminal misuse.
As one of our country?s oldest federal law enforcement agencies, founded by Benjamin Franklin, the United States Postal Inspection Service has a long, proud and successful history of fighting criminals who attack our nation?s postal system and misuse it to defraud, endanger or otherwise threaten the American public.&quot;

Are you a lawyer?

Maybe my original statement would have been better stated as... &quot;fraud by mail, how quaint...&quot;

(Side note: Show me that what he has stated previously(if carried out) wouldn't be breaking a law.)

O.k. Harassment then.

Regardless, it's a despicable act to *treat* someone in their own name to a product they didn't request as if they had requested it. Something like &quot;bladder-control&quot; products and such. (You do know that this person will be &quot;marketed&quot; by the company sending the product, and perhaps they send/sell that persons name to another company that makes adult diapers, which in turn sells it to the company that makes viagra, or some other product that could be considered harassment?)

So you see nothing wrong in *his* statement that he would send them to &quot;friends&quot; (his emphasis) at their residences? His &quot;childish yes? he he&quot; just further demonstrates his intent to harass someone.

I still think you are looking at this too near-sightedly.. (Does Section 1342 apply here at all?) Isn't it fraud to misrepresent yourself? Isn't this guy sending something in the mail in the &quot;friends&quot; name that they didn't order?

Or how about criminal misuse of USPS services? Misrepresenting yourself to send someone else something they did not request?

Would a form of identity theft be applicable here?

Now, if you are a lawyer, fine, you're right, you win, I bow before you. Go away.

I do not like lawyers and will not conduct any conversations with one.