If you're a victim of check fraud: Reach out to your bank, local police and the USPIS immediately. Banks may be able to ...

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

A Tennessee county mailed a check for $881.08. By the time the payment was altered, officials said, it had become a $20,881.08 loss. Williamson County ... Read More ...

If you must, keep an eye on your account statements, experts say. Thieves steal checks from mailboxes, then alter the checks ...

Now it’s cause for concern — all because of check washing, an old-school scam that has become big business. Every year, the U ...

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

With fraud on the rise across the country, an old form of theft has popped up in a Chicago suburb, and one resident is sounding the alarm. As Therese Scarlati shared with CBS News (1), she and her ...

A 23-year-old Connecticut woman admitted to her role in a bank fraud scheme tied to stolen checks taken from the U.S. Mail, federal prosecutors said. Gianna Parente, of Naugatuck, waived her right to ...

For more than three decades, Verdie Kendall spent her days teaching science in the classroom before later becoming a school principal. Now retired and living on a fixed income, Kendall recently faced ...

Welcome back to the fourth installment of our “Scam Likely” series. Today, we turn to an old-school scam that has made a huge comeback: mail theft ...