If you are a resident of Mississippi and received letters from SRHS showing pension contributions in the years when no pension contributions were made, please contact your local District Attorney or the Attorney General’s office.
Mail fraud is a crime in the state of Mississippi and you should make the appropriate authorities aware if you have potentially been a victim.
Even if you aren’t a resident of Jackson County, your local DA has jurisdiction because the law covers where the mail was sent and also where it was received.
§ 97-19-83 – Fraud by mail or other means of communication
(1) Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money, property or services, or for unlawfully avoiding the payment or loss of money, property or services, or for securing business or personal advantage by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations or promises, or to sell, dispose of, loan, exchange, alter, give away, distribute, supply, or furnish or procure for unlawful use any counterfeit or spurious coin, obligation, security or other article, or anything represented to be or intimated or held out to be such counterfeit or spurious article, for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice or attempting so to do, transmits or causes to be transmitted by mail, telephone, newspaper, radio, television, wire, electromagnetic waves, microwaves, or other means of communication or by person, any writings, signs, signals, pictures, sounds, data, or other matter across county or state jurisdictional lines, shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not more than Ten Thousand Dollars ($ 10,000.00) or by imprisonment for not more than five (5) years, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
(2) For the purposes of venue under the provisions of this section, any violation of this section may be prosecuted in the county in which the delivery or transmission originated, the county in which the delivery or transmission was made, or the county in which any act in execution or furtherance of the scheme occurred.
(3) This section shall not prohibit the prosecution under any other criminal statute of the state.