ABSTRACT
As is the case with many face-to-face fraudulent schemes, there is no criminal statute addressing the speci¨c crime. For example, there is no federal law that makes auction fraud, per se, a crime. e same applies to Ponzi and pyramid schemes, and mail order bride frauds. Instead, as is illustrated below, more generic criminal statutes such as wire fraud and computer fraud are used by prosecutors to punish the perpetrators of those frauds.
