Editing Mail and wire fraud (section)

==Mail fraud schemes==
There are many types of mail fraud schemes, including [[employment fraud]], financial fraud, [[Elder financial abuse|fraud against older Americans]], sweepstakes and [[lottery fraud]], and [[telemarketing fraud]]. Additional information about these various types of mail fraud schemes can be found on the [[United States Postal Inspection Service]] website.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://postalinspectors.uspis.gov/investigations/MailFraud/fraudschemes/FraudSchemes.aspx |title=United States Postal Inspection Service |access-date=2013-09-19 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130820233233/https://postalinspectors.uspis.gov/investigations/MailFraud/fraudschemes/FraudSchemes.aspx |archive-date=2013-08-20 }}</ref>

In the 1960s and 1970s, Chief [[United States Postal Inspection Service|Postal Inspector]] Martin McGee, also known as "The Top Sleuth" or "Mr. Mail Fraud", led his department in exposing and prosecuting numerous mail fraud swindles such as land sales, phony advertising practices, insurance rip-offs, and fraudulent charitable organizations that used the mail to facilitate their illegal activities.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4528100.html|title=Martin McGee, former postal inspector|author=Shu Shin Luh|date=January 17, 2000|publisher=Chicago Sun-Times|access-date=November 19, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140610085827/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4528100.html|archive-date=June 10, 2014}}</ref>