A bad check is one drawn on a nonexistent account or with insufficient funds. Learn about potential legal consequences and how to avoid writing or receiving a bad check.

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 ...

In Nov. 2021, John William Pollard, a retiree who lives in Philadelphia, wrote a $84.83 check to Verizon to pay a phone bill. It was stolen in the mail. The amount was changed to $45,678.12, made out ...

“No, Rieva, I don’t take checks anymore.” I was surprised to hear these words from one of my long-time home service providers, whom I’ve been paying by check for over 15 years. “Too risky,” he ...

The use of personal checks is fading toward obscurity. We pay our bills online and Venmo the babysitter. The plumber takes credit cards and your food delivery payments are automatic. So why has ...

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The FBI and United States Postal Inspection Service have issued a joint alert about an increase in check fraud due to mail theft; reports doubled from 2021 to 2023. The U.S. Treasury Department’s ...

The volume of check fraud on Telegram has reached an unprecedented scale, renewing concerns about the messaging app's role in the rise of check fraud over the past three years. The indictment of ...

A group of community bankers in Illinois is pushing regulators to get tougher on their enforcement of "know your customer" laws with big banks, which they say have done too little to combat a dramatic ...