A Florida ring drilled its check-fraud recruits to dodge bank alerts. An analyst says the fraudsters were guarding the wrong ...

A $100 check that allegedly became a $1,000 deposit helped Nassau County detectives uncover what they now describe as a much ...

A check that looks like free money can quickly turn into a costly trap. Fake check scams often begin with an unexpected payment tied to a prize, mystery shopping job, online sale, personal assistant ...

The state Department of the Attorney General arrested 41-year-old Felix Savoy on Thursday for his alleged role in a $1.2 million check fraud scheme, according to a news release from the state ...

A Long Island man scammed two elderly victims out of thousands of dollars in a bad check scheme, police said. Kacper Kusnierz, 34, of Middle Island, was part of a larger scam operation that ensnared ...

Fake check scam resurfaces, preying on victims with false lottery claims ...

Check fraud is surging nationwide, and scammers are getting increasingly sophisticated at producing counterfeit checks that ...

SHOWING UP IN SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY, BUT IT’S ONE WE’VE SEEN BEFORE. THERE’S A SUCKER BORN EVERY MINUTE. WE’RE ALL FAMILIAR WITH THAT PHRASE, RIGHT? WELL, SCAMMERS MAY BE KEEPING THAT PHRASE IN MIND AS ...

Criminals use chemicals to “wash” away the recipent's name and dollar amount, and then rewrite the check to themselves.

Listen, when I share scam alerts on here, I'm not trying to insult your intelligence. I try to share the scams that don't immediately scream scam, the ones that people could reasonably fall for. So I ...

I handle my elderly mother's finances. She got a check in the mail for a class-action settlement and cashed it. It later bounced and now they are deducting that amount from her account. I believe this ...

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