Mail theft and check fraud now cost Americans over $20 billion a year. Learn how checks are stolen, washed, and cashed—and ...

A Tampa woman who had a check stolen out of the mail got her money back, and had been working with Tampa police on the issue.

Cases of check fraud have surged within the Millcreek Police Department in recent months as more people choose to pay bills ...

U.S. authorities are urging Americans not to mail checks if they don't absolutely need to. Reports from the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) said there were at least 680,000 complaints of ...

A North County couple is sharing a cautionary tale after a case of bank fraud left them frustrated and searching for answers ...

The use of checks may be declining, but check crimes are actually on the rise due to new, creative criminal schemes. Once a ...

A Tampa woman said a check she wrote out to her child's school was stolen out of the mail, and someone used it to forge a check for thousands of dollars. She said it overdrafted her account, causing a ...

Checks are an ancient form of payment with beginnings tracing back to the Roman Empire – but demand for these payments shows no signs of abating. The North American reliance on checks may seem like an ...

Two St. Louis-area men recruited homeless people and drug-addicted individuals to carry out an elaborate fraud scheme ...

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 ...

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Another challenge is that fraud is not easy to root out entirely. Historically, "only a small percentage of tax dollars lost to fraud are ever actually recovered by the government," said Bob ...