FINANCIAL GROUP. YOU PAY A BILL AND PUT THE CHECK IN THE BLUE BOX AT THE POST OFFICE, THINKING IT’S GOING TO BE SAFE, BUT IT MAY NOT BE. IT’S JUST ONE OF THOSE THINGS YOU HEAR OF AND SEE ONLINE AND ...

WRAL has covered past incidents of check fraud extensively, but the Wake County Sheriff’s Office said this time of year, ...

New victims coming forward as pattern emerges in ongoing mail theft investigation ...

8 ON YOUR SIDE. CONSUMER INVESTIGATOR BRIAN ROCHE HAS SOME ANSWERS. YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT, THERE’S A LOT OF VALUABLE INFORMATION THAT PASSES THROUGH A MAILBOX. BUT WHAT THE CROOKS ARE ...

Check washing fraud is when important information is removed from an original check and new information is added on. Typically, a scammer will use some sort of acetone solution like nail polish ...

LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) — Each year, U.S. Postal Inspectors recover $1 billion worth of checks and money orders stolen from mailboxes. Scammers are stealing these checks and “check washing” to steal ...

Every day the United States Postal Service (USPS) delivers millions of personal and business checks. But during its journey from the postal service to a final destination, a check can very easy be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Officials say the decades-old scam of "check washing" - washing the ink off checks the changing the information to clean out bank ...

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 ...

They said both of the washed checks were made out to the same name ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The cluster mailbox outside Terry Murphy's marketing firm was his financial lifeline. It's where he'd receive checks from clients all over the U.S. And then last fall, in the ...

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. — A Boynton Beach woman called WPTV after she allegedly lost $50,000 to a check-washing scheme. Earlier this year, WPTV spoke with several business owners who were victims of check ...