Hello, and welcome to Mind of Micah.

Today on the program, it's part three of Micah's Read of the Week about the sweepstakes

scammers.

Before we get to it, a reminder that this Sunday September 4th, 9 a.m., meanwhile brewing,

come visit Micah's Yoga Club, practice for free, and I'll buy you the first drink.

All skill levels encouraged.

Meanwhile brewing Sunday morning, on to the Read part three.

Around the time James Parker was vacationing in Paris, a telephone rang on the second

floor of Philadelphia's Boque Mail Center, a large office that houses the oldest law enforcement

agency in the United States.

When Agent Daniel Carl Smires took a job at the U.S. Postal Inspection Service in 1971,

the organization was nearly 200 years old.

Smires felt people underestimated the U.S. P.I.S. confusing its agents with mail carriers.

Few knew he carried a gun.

When the telephone was someone from the Assistant U.S. Attorney's Office, who had heard that

a woman claiming to be involved in a sweepstakes fraud, this peaked Smires interest.

He loved to see his name and splashing newspaper articles that raised the profile of the U.S.

P.I.S.

Smires was a devout Methodist whose mother taught Sunday school for 45 years.

He went and boasted about it at church, but he had recently won a medal for busting a

series of supermarket coupon frauds.

He drove straight to the Assistant U.S. Attorney's Office where he met with Catherine Wojgenorowski,

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