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Ninety-eight years of mail fraud - How the postal letter became a tool for ingenious criminality

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Tags: usa, postal service, crime, usps, fraud, author.simon r gardner, paywall.soft
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/05/98-years-of-mail-fraud/559661/

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Title
98 Years of Mail Fraud
Authors
Simon R. Gardner
Published
May 4 2018
Word count
2038 words

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    Neat little history... and it even puts some of the modern online scams and dark web in context. Incidentally, one of the 2001 Anthrax attack targets (American Media Inc.) was a few blocks from my...

    Neat little history... and it even puts some of the modern online scams and dark web in context.

    Incidentally, one of the 2001 Anthrax attack targets (American Media Inc.) was a few blocks from my house in Boca Raton, Florida. The whole area around their complex was completely locked down for days by law enforcement agents and the National Guard. FBI/CDC people in biohazard suits were roaming around bloody everywhere looking for contamination even into the gated communities around the area. It was a bit terrifying and felt like witnessing in real life something out of a Zombie apocalypse movie. :(

    p.s. Comstock was an asshole.

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