| Show THROUGH THE MAILS solve of the litany binny schemes scheme that ate are constantly being worked the no frauds attempted bythe by the use of the mails are almost innumerable ir they consist of sch schemes enies concocted I 1 j to humbug the unsuspecting public anait and it seems the greater t the he fraud the greater the returns to the swindler nearly all of these schemes make use of advertisements published in newspapers and of circulars lai s distributed through throng b the mails without means mean the public could not bo be reached and for this re reason on the he law it has as been enacted prohibiting t theli the liso of the mails for fraudus fraudulent cut purposes es but it is to be borne in 1 mind III eliat I 1 anle s 0 its are made to the postoffice post office department these frauds are arc carried on without any of their existence and no invests investigation 1 aaion can be had to give a few instances of these frauds A few years ago an advertisement ti appeared in the papers stating in that for the sum suin of one dollar a recipe would bo be given for tho the per ni allent cure of when the dollar was sent the receipt wass was returned which dimply read I 1 keep your mouth abut another instance of this kind was where in an advertisement verti recited that for fiat fifty Y cents a receipt would be given for catching all the fish in any given body of water when the fifty c cents was sent a receipt would be returned tellin telling the victim to dip all shewa the water out and then pick up the fish another form of fraud is perpetrated by means of advertisements go fo worded as to mislead the public pei persons sons answering them think that for twenty five cents they are to have a watch or some other valuable article when in fact they merely get some som e illustrated catalogue an extensive fraud has been carried on by certain persons claiming to be commission merchants or produce dealers who send out their circulars and price lists offering prices higher than the market when in fact they have no commission house and prot ably only desk room in shop or saloon and the goods shipped to them are received and sold at any price obtainable no return whatever being made some bowa time since appeared a very glowing advertisement of a book ex elusively clu for young unmarried peo pie both gentlemen and ladies the price of which was five dollars for the five dollars a very cheap edition of the bible was sent A fine timekeeper with the cut of a watch would be advertised for 1 the sender would expect a watch in return but he would get a sun dial great frauds have been carried ou on by the proposed publication of handsomely illustrated books for which photographs of prominent men were solicited it was added that to have the necessary copper plates engraved would cost 1675 A surprisingly singly large number responded with photographs and money but no books of course were published washington star |
