Mississippi Fraud by Mail or Other Means of Communication
Miss. Code Ann. § 97-19-83
Mississippi Code 1972 Annotated
Title 97. Crimes (Chs. 1 — 47)
Chapter 19. False Pretenses and Cheats (§§ 97-19-1 — 97-19-87)
§ 97-19-83. Fraud by mail or other means of communication.
(1) Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money, property or services, or for unlawfully avoiding the payment or loss of money, property or services, or for securing business or personal advantage by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations or promises, or to sell, dispose of, loan, exchange, alter, give away, distribute, supply, or furnish or procure for unlawful use any counterfeit or spurious coin, obligation, security or other article, or anything represented to be or intimated or held out to be such counterfeit or spurious article, for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice or attempting so to do, transmits or causes to be transmitted by mail, telephone, newspaper, radio, television, wire, electromagnetic waves, microwaves, or other means of communication or by person, any writings, signs, signals, pictures, sounds, data, or other matter across county or state jurisdictional lines, shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not more than Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) or by imprisonment for not more than five (5) years, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
(2) For the purposes of venue under the provisions of this section, any violation of this section may be prosecuted in the county in which the delivery or transmission originated, the county in which the delivery or transmission was made, or the county in which any act in execution or furtherance of the scheme occurred.
(3) This section shall not prohibit the prosecution under any other criminal statute of the state.
History
Laws, 1988, ch. 511, § 3; brought forward without change, Laws, 2014, ch. 457, § 75, eff from and after July 1, 2014.
Fraud by Mail or Other Means of Communication (Mississippi Code Sec. 97-19-83, effective July 1, 1988.)
Mississippi Code 1972 Annotated
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