"Check washing" and "check cooking" are two new ways criminals can steal tens of thousands of dollars out of your account.

There was a time when paying bills came with a sense of security, when people sending checks through the mail could feel certain that their money was going to the right place. That feeling of ...

When a resident of Palm Beach's Midtown mailed a check in November to pay her Palm Beach County property taxes, she signed on the line, sealed the envelope and considered her payment delivered. That ...

— -- Check schemes are spreading across the USA as scamsters exploit the popularity of online auction, dating and social-networking sites to find victims. The scams have grown so prevalent that ...

LONG VALLEY, NJ — If you still mail personal checks to pay your bills, you may want to take a close look at your bank account, as Long Valley police have arrested a woman in connection with a ...

The FBI and United States Postal Inspection Service have issued a joint alert about an increase in check fraud due to mail theft; reports doubled from 2021 to 2023. The U.S. Treasury Department’s ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Check fraud remains one of the greatest fraud threats to ...

A former Stamford U.S. Postal Service employee pleaded guilty to stealing mail in order to obtain checks that could be altered to steal funds, federal prosecutors said. The case highlights a growing ...

[WINNESHIEK COUNTY, Iowa] — Residents in Winneshiek County are being alerted to a rising check fraud scheme. The Winneshiek County Sheriff's Office reported that scammers have been intercepting and ...