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The USPS is serious about preventing fraudulent scams and that means they have a two-pronged strategy that's equal parts dated, irrelevant, poignant, funny and pure internet genius. Well, the genius part is up for debate.
Delivering Justice is an eight episode CSI-style police drama that focuses on preventing fraud schemes ranging from depositing fake checks to playing foreign lotteries. In an age where amateur and professional filmmakers alike are streaming their creations in stunning HD on massively visited video sites like YouTube and Vimeo, the USPS has the courage to buck these trends and instead offer up their slickly produced, 50 megabyte, twenty-five minute long episodes in a 320 x 250 Windows Media Player plug-in on a website no has ever visited or heard of. If you prefer to watch your web videos offline, there's also the ever popular option of saving target as.
As ridiculous as the expenditure/placement/entire thought process behind Delivering Justice is, it's actually pretty entertaining. The dialog is ridiculous at times, but the story is there, the acting is good enough, and the whole thing has an after-school special quality that brings backs warm nostalgic memories of walking into a classroom expecting a lecture, only to find out that you'd be spending the next 40 minutes with the lights off, your head resting on your desk, watching a video. Despite the fact that it takes 18 minutes and a completed story arc to get to them, there are also some truly poignant words of warning these videos. For example:
There are very few legitimate jobs that allow you to work from your home and none that involve processing checks or money orders....There are no get rich quick schemes and you can be sure that no one needs your help to transfer millions of dollars into or out of their country.

Fake Out! is a hidden camera show where host Randall Sims tries to bamboozle real life people with scams ripped straight from the internet.


Granted, Punk'd's heyday was about six years ago, but this is guy is pretty funny. And as good as his performance in Fake Out! the bio he wrote for his own website is even better:
Born and raised in a small southern town... Randall Sims did not discover his true calling until after years of toiling away in the "real world" with jobs ranging from circus crime scene investigator to undercover agent in the dark and seedy world of obscure and flamboyant religious cults....While performing a pentecostal holy dance with four highly venomous serpents Randall was bitten several times and collapsed. While hovering between life and death, he had a profound and holy vision. In that vision, Judy Garland and John Wayne appeared to him in the form of clay-mation mongooses. They revealed to him that he should move to Atlanta, GA and begin a quest to become a professional actor and performer.
Thanks for the tip, Sergey!