According to the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), "check washing" fraud is inflicting substantial financial damage on Americans. Postal inspectors report intercepting more than $1 billion in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WAKE COUNTY, N.C. — A Wake County woman is warning others after thieves altered a check she wrote, changing the amount from $85 to $4,000. Jane O’Connor noticed the hefty check in her bank statement ...

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 ...

You fill out a check and put it in the mail. The next thing you know, someone else has removed your writing and written the check to himself. It's called check washing, and it's a crime in which ...

Elisa Kamens walks a couple blocks to the mailboxes at Valencia Parc every day. Earlier this month, she sent two checks for thousands of dollars, dropping them in an outgoing mailbox slot. They were ...

LINCOLN COUNTY, Wis. (WSAW) - The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office is investigating two recent check washing incidents. Check washing is a type of financial crime where a person steals a check that is ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - You may pay your bills online, but one man, Mike Smith, in New Hanover County, does things the old-fashioned way, sending in some payments by mail. A decision Smith is now re ...