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 ...

U.S. identity theft data shows that some types of fraud have tripled in the past five years. American consumers face mounting ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Baltimore business owner Joseph Nissel estimates 25-30 checks have been stolen from his mail since August, severely impacting ...

A 28-year-old Milwaukee man has pleaded guilty to multiple felony counts related to what authorities called a check washing scheme in which he would steal and alter checks from blue U.S. Postal ...

Two men in Lancaster County are facing charges in connection with alleged check-washing schemes, according to local police reports.In Manheim Township, the Manheim Township Police Department police ...

One of two New Jersey residents charged in February with tampering with the mail and related offenses as part of what is believed to a wider check washing scheme has entered the Accelerated ...

Palm Beach Police on July 17 arrested a Riviera Beach woman on a felony larceny charge after they said she helped a man fraudulently deposit a check from Club Colette. According to an arrest report, ...

ROYERSFORD — State Rep. Joe Ciresi, D-146th Dist., will host a fraud event for seniors, “Popular Scams and How to Avoid Them,” from 10 a.m. to noon, on Friday, Oct. 3, at the Royersford Free Public ...