On Tue, 02 Feb 1999 02:58:41 GMT, benchr@teleport.com (Ross Bench) wrote:
>On 30 Dec 1998 22:44:15 GMT, fshadoan@aol.com (Fshadoan) wrote:

>>I assume that you have reported the above to the U.S. Postal authorities who, I
>>am told, will cause the guilty party to be prosecuted for mail fraud if he can
>>be found.

>That is quite funny !!
>As a kid in the 60's I thought that is was a big deal Federal case to
>mess with the mail...
>A number of years ago I caught a guy robbing my mail...
>The US Attorney's office told me that they wouldn't prosecute
>anything that was less than $50,000...

I had the same impression, especially after I was scammed
through a Shutterbug ad several years ago... Guess what?
The postal folks did track MC down a few years later,
prosecuted him, and much to my surprise, I now regularly
receive small restitution checks...