Postal scam in the US: fraudsters collect millions with parcel tricks

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You first have to collect that much criminal energy. Two California brothers have now pleaded guilty in court to aggravated mail fraud. Anwer A.* (35) and Yousofzay A.* (31) had sent letters and parcels to nowhere for three years and then collected the insurance amounts. The total damage amounts to 2.3 million dollars.

The two men had each insured their letters. They sent them to letterbox companies or made up addresses and then reported the shipments as missing or seriously damaged. They forged invoices, opened fake companies and had several dozen mailboxes and accounts under different names in the small town of Temecula north of San Diego.

Brothers risk a prison sentence of twenty years

They then asked the insurance company of the United States Postal Service (USPS) via their website to reimburse them for the alleged damage. They got away with this more than 22,300 times and collected a total of 2,367,033 US dollars, the equivalent of 2,085,083 francs, between October 2016 and May 2019.

Only an internal USPS audit exposed the brothers. The FBI caught them red-handed and the duo preferred to plead guilty due to the overwhelming evidence. Nevertheless, the A’s face a prison sentence of 20 years when the verdict is announced on November 1.

*Names known

Source: Blick