; 113 Stat. 1806) increased the power of the United States Postal Service to protect consumers against persons who use deceptive mailings, such as those featuring games of chance, sweepstakes, skill contests, and facsimile checks. (11) During fiscal year 2007, analysts prepared more than 27,000 letters and informative postcards in response to mail fraud complaints. During that same fiscal year, postal inspectors investigated 2,909 mail fraud cases in the United States and arrested 1,236 mail fraud suspects, of whom 1,118 were convicted. Postal inspectors also reported 162 telemarketing fraud investigations with 83 arrests and 61 convictions resulting from the investigations. (12) In 2000, the Special Committee on Aging of the Senate reported that, each year, consumers lose approximately $40,000,000,000 to telemarketing fraud and estimated that approximately 10 percent of the 14,000 telemarketing firms in the United States were fraudulent. (13) Some researchers estimate that only one in 10,000 fraud victims reports the crime to the authorities. (14) A 2003 report by AARP, Inc., found that the crime of telemarketing fraud is grossly underreported among senior victims, but that individuals who are properly counseled by trained peer volunteers are less likely to fall victim to fraudulent practices. (15) The Federal Bureau of Investigation reports that the threat of fraud to seniors is growing and changing. Many younger baby boomers have considerable computer skills and criminals are modifying their targeting techniques by using not only traditional telephone calls and mass mailings, but also online scams like phishing and e-mail spam­ming. (16) The Internet Crime Complaint Center is a partnership between the National White Collar Crime Center and the Federal Bureau of Investigation that serves as a vehicle to receive, develop, and refer criminal complaints regarding cybercrime. The Internet Crime Complaint Center processed more than 219,553 complaints of Internet crime in 2007 and, from these submissions, the center