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 ...

Fraud can happen to anyone, even wealthy entrepreneurs. Steve, who asked his last name not be used so he could tell this story, was shocked to discover that someone had stolen one of his checks that ...