Prison Time For Postage Fraud

[kds99]

A recent conviction of an Iowa man illustrates the seriousness of cheating the post office. The (former?) eBay seller was convicted of forging and counterfeiting postage stamps, and 3 counts of export violations, and currently faces sentencing of up to 65 years in prison and a fine of up to $2.5m. I guess the law takes this seriously.

[rugerskick]

Its all one sided though.

Ebay encourages and enables buyer fraud.

Wish they would care enough to take the same hardline aproach to fraudulent buyers.

Then I might actually consider their statement they want to make ebay a better place.

[stephenmorgan]

Story from November says he received three years prison time.

https://postalnews.com/blog/2021/11/15/iowa-man-sentenced-to-federal-prison-for-making-over-250000-i...

[theteamsetguy]

eoi,

Why should ebay be penalized when it is the seller who is committing the postage fraud? How would ebay profit from the postage fraud? 

If the seller buys the postage from ebay they actually lose revenue because the USPS pays ebay a small percentage of the postage bought thru ebay.  

[kh-leslie]

Hi everyone,

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Thank you for understanding.