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 ...

Though only 61% of Americans wrote a check in the last year according to a 2024 survey, officials are still warning people about crime trends related to paper checks. It’s easy to see why; two men in ...

841 Financial Institutions have submitted 15,417 BSA reports on mail theft-check fraud amounting to $688 million in suspicious activity committed by perpetrators. This information is pertinent to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Steve Weisman writes about white-collar crime. While the crime may seem like something from another era, mail theft is big ...

Incidents involving mail theft-related check fraud are on the rise, which could impact individuals expecting to receive funds through a check in the mailbox. Since 2021, the U.S. Postal Inspection ...

(WSPA) – The US Post Office said mail theft is a growing problem. One Greenville man learned that the hard way when someone stole his checks right out of his mailbox. In this 7NEWS Here to Help ...

The Beverly Hills Police Department reports that scammers are specifically targeting IRS payments sent by mail, nabbing large ...

Mail carrier Jeland Mouton's arrest while in his USPS uniform had a lot of people talking this week and got customer Joe ...