According to the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), "check washing" fraud is inflicting substantial financial damage on ...

Phi Dang works at her family owned business selling small appliances to retailers. A vendor recently called her asking about a past due bill. “My vendor said, ‘Hey Phi, you didn’t pay this invoice yet ...

The grandmother on a fixed income said she dropped three checks into a mailbox outside the North Babylon Post Office, but none made it to the payees.

Residents at the Valencia Parc complex in Port St. Lucie are facing a new wave of mail-related crimes, with thieves stealing and altering checks worth thousands of dollars from unsecured mailboxes.

There was a time when paying bills came with a sense of security, when people sending checks through the mail could feel certain that their money was going to the right place. That feeling of ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A Sioux Falls-based credit union is warning people about thieves stealing checks out of mailboxes. They then take those checks and alter them to steal money out of your ...

Long Island business owners who went out of their way to pay bills the safe way, or so they thought, issued a warning on Tuesday. Their mail got stolen anyway. It's all part of a crime called check ...

MURRYSVILLE, Pa. — A couple from Murrysville reported that they mailed their check to pay their monthly bill, but instead of settling their account, they became victims of a scam that cost them ...

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 ...