mail fraud

1. 1.

   use of the mails to defraud someone

   Broaderfraud

Questions about mail fraud

What does mail fraud mean?

mail fraud means "use of the mails to defraud someone".

Is mail fraud a common word?

mail fraud is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.