Another year, another illegal holiday hoax.
It's that time of year again when the joy of gift giving gets taken advantage of by certain scammers. Multiple police departments have started warning folks on Facebook about the viral"secret sister gift exchange" scam that's re-appeared on friends' newsfeeds every holiday season since 2015, according to Snopes.
That's right — gift chains actually break the U.S. Postal Inspection Service's gambling and pyramid scheme laws. Not only does participating mean you're committing mail fraud, but it also puts your personal information — like your home address — at risk. The potential to receive 36 gifts may sound promising but, know this: The chances that you actually receive that many, if any at all, are in fact"mathematically impossible," according to the U.S. Postal Inspection Service's statement on chain letters.
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