United States Postal Inspection Service response to a chain letter complaint

A while back someone asked about U.S. law on "make money fast"
(pyramid/chain letter) scams.

This is a snail mail response to a complaint I made at:

https://www.usps.com/postalinspectors/fraud/MailFraudComplaint.htm

You can see the classic USPIS chain letter page at:

http://www.usps.com/websites/depart/inspect/chainlet.htm

Note that the USPIS has jurisdiction over chain letters where some
aspect of the scheme uses the U.S. mails but not over Paypal chain
letters. That doesn't make Paypal chain letters legal - it just says
the USPIS ain't interested.

The USPIS has busted a kiddie porn website - because some customers
were sending checks through the mail. It doesn't mean the site would
have become legal under U.S. or state law had it not used that
particular payment means. The list of laws which it violated might
have changed.

Excuse me for any OCR erros on the scanned paper. I did use a spelling
checker.

 

Thanks for the follow-up and useful advice.