Postal inspectors raise scam alerts

Even in the e-mail era, snail-mail fraud still snares its share of victims

By Tom Jackman / The Bulletin
August 19, 2008

WASHINGTON — The envelope declared that the 90-year-old man in suburban Fairfax County, Va., had won $2.5 million in a sweepstakes and that he needed to send in only some small “fees” and “taxes” to collect. When the man from Jamaica kept calling....

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