This is a civil consumer fraud lawsuit in which Attorney General Hubert H. Humphrey III, on behalf of the State of Minnesota, seeks declaratory and injunctive relief, restitution, civil penalties, costs and reasonable attorney fees. Defendants engage in a scheme to defraud consumers by offering to sell information on how to send first class letters through the U.S. Postal Service with two-cent stamps.
Defendants purport to offer consumers a legal means of sending first class mail for two cents.
Defendants advertise this program through one or more on-line computer communication services. After receiving an inquiry from a prospective customer via the on-line service, defendants respond with correspondence through the U.S. m herein by reference. Defendants' offer arrived bearing a two-cent stamp with thirty cents postage due. The report is attached as Exhibit 2 and incorporated herein by reference. While affirmatively representing that their services are legal, defendants fail to disclose to consumers the material fact that consumers who follow defendants' directions will violate federal laws.