Every day the United States Postal Service (USPS) delivers millions of personal and business checks. But during its journey from the postal service to a final destination, a check can very easy be ...
In recent cases, the Henry County Sheriff’s Office said people are leaving checks in their own mailboxes and thieves are ...
WATERTOWN, Conn. (WTNH) — Police are investigating after multiple people said their checks were stolen and washed from USPS drop boxes in Watertown. Police said the suspects used a device with a ...
Once considered an old-fashioned crime, check washing has roared back to life with alarming sophistication. Criminals are not just targeting personal checks anymore. They are exploiting every ...
ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10)– A 43-year-old Schenectady woman pleaded guilty to second-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument and criminal possession of a forgery device in Albany County Court on ...
Long Island business owners who went out of their way to pay bills the safe way, or so they thought, issued a warning on Tuesday. Their mail got stolen anyway. It's all part of a crime called check ...
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Check washing fraudsters are targeting local businesses. “The bills never stop in the restaurant business, they never stop. It affects cash flow for sure.” That was Beau ...
(InvestigateTV) — Nasdaq quoted the BBB as claiming $815 million is lost each year due to check washing schemes. Check washing occurs when someone intercepts mail and uses household chemicals to “wash ...
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A Sioux Falls-based credit union is warning people about thieves stealing checks out of mailboxes. They then take those checks and alter them to steal money out of your ...