Automobile Fraud: 9.5.3 Application to Automobile Fraud Cases
The most common predicate offense in an automobile fraud case is mail fraud or wire fraud.540 Mail and wire fraud fall somewhere in between common law fraud and UDAP deception as to difficulty of proof.541 The defendant need not itself use the mails to further the automobile fraud scheme as long as some victims, or others involved in the scheme, used the mails for some purpose related to the automobile fraud.542 An example is a purchaser who