The Collaborative International Dictionary
mail fraud \mail fraud\ n. The use of the mails to defraud someone.
Wiktionary
n. (context US legal English) A class of felony, 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.
WordNet
n. use of the mails to defraud someone
Usage examples of "mail fraud".
At twenty-nine, he'd been convicted of mail fraud, selling low-cost life insurance policies through the mail to elderly people.
I got my Royal Knights Klavern, which is basically an FBI franchise, and all I gotta do is keep my ear down and rat off the Exalted Knights and Imperial Knights for mail fraud, which is the only Klan stuff Mr.
The mail fraud brought a grand jury indictment which was eventually dismissed and the aggravated assault plea-bargained to a misdemeanor and petty fine.
The hapless yutz was spending most of his days fending off the press, and trying to explain two long-ago convictions for mail fraud back in Little Rock, Arkansas.
That bumps it up from simple mail fraud to mail fraud plus forgery.
Tarrance was not sure where the mail fraud fit, but he worked for the FBI and had never seen a case that did not include mail fraud.
Once you put a stamp on it and hand it over to the local post, fraud becomes mail fraud.
In other words, I'm not content with the equivalent of a mail fraud conviction.
In five short years he had accumulated more money than in an entire lifetime of mob bunko, jukebox skimming and mail fraud.