TY - JOUR
T1 - An Example of Mail Fraud in 19th Century Samoa
AU - Spennemann, Dirk
N1 - Imported on 12 Apr 2017 - DigiTool details were: Journal title (773t) = Journal of South Pacific Law. ISSNs: 1684-5307;
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - Mail fraud, the purchasing of items via mail order without paying for them, is a common mode of operation of modern day small time crooks. As a 21st century legal problem it is particularly associated with e-commerce.[1] It is not new however. Trawling through the pages of nineteenth century newspapers published in Apia, Samoa (South Pacific) in the course of research on various aspects of Samoan history,[2] brought to light an example of Alexander Pritchard, a European trader living in Samoa, defrauding the wine wholesaler Edward Patrick Fallon of Albury, NSW, Australia.
AB - Mail fraud, the purchasing of items via mail order without paying for them, is a common mode of operation of modern day small time crooks. As a 21st century legal problem it is particularly associated with e-commerce.[1] It is not new however. Trawling through the pages of nineteenth century newspapers published in Apia, Samoa (South Pacific) in the course of research on various aspects of Samoan history,[2] brought to light an example of Alexander Pritchard, a European trader living in Samoa, defrauding the wine wholesaler Edward Patrick Fallon of Albury, NSW, Australia.
M3 - Article
VL - 8
SP - 1
EP - 5
JO - Journal of South Pacific Law
JF - Journal of South Pacific Law
SN - 1684-5307
IS - 2
ER -