...$10,0000 or imprisoned not more than five years or both. "18 USC § 1341 (1984). The statute provides: Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any...property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses.. .places in any post office or authorized depository for mail mailer., .shall be fined not more than...

...title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. § 1343. Fraud by wire, radio, or television Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any...fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, transmits or causes to be transmitted by means of wire, radio, or television communication in interstate...

...authorities. For example, federal law prohibits any "use of the mails" for the purpose of executing any "scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining...false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises."97 Many commercial transactions might arguably fall within the terms of this broadly crafted...

...following: • Willfulness • The suspect knew that the statement was false § 1341. Frauds and swindles Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any...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...

...1341-1343) 1343. Fraud by wire, radio, or television. § 1343. Fraud by wire, radio, or television Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any...fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, transmits or causes to be transmitted by means of wire, radio, or television communication in interstate...

...CRIMES CHAPTER 63 — MAIL FRAUD -HEADSec. 1343. Fraud by wire, radio, or television -STATUTEWhoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or...fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, transmits or causes to be transmitted by means of wire, radio, or television communication in interstate...

...imprisoned not more than five years or both." l8 USCA § l343 lautet: „Fraud by wire, radio or television. Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any...for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulcnt pretenses, representations, or promises, transmits or causes to be transmitted by means...

...fraud statutes make illegal the use of the mails or interstate telecommunications in furtherance of "any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining...false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises."7 Violations of the mail and wire fraud statutes have been charged in conjunction with Sherman...

...that may be appropriate is mail fraud, discussed in Title 18, Section 1341, of the United States Code. Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any...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...

...defraud. Here is where transmission of computer data over telephone lines fits. The statute provides: Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any...fraudulent pretenses, representations or promises, transmits or causes to be transmitted £aui of. t'nwczzlemeat and {Related Ctime> / 79 by means of...