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 ...

LOWER EAST SIDE, Manhattan (WABC) -- A couple is in the hole for almost $3,000 after someone managed to cash a check they mailed to American Express in July of 2017. "I was worried," Mary Buchen said.

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 ...

An Indianapolis man has been arrested and charged with fraud and forgery; police say he tried to cash a check in Fortville for over $1,900 in August 2024. Jason Kenneth Bruce, 31, 1000 block of Morgan ...

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PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Even though fewer checks are being written, check fraud is on the rise. More than half of Americans still write checks. Check writing hit its peak in the 1990s, and let’s face it, ...

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 ...

Checks are an ancient form of payment with beginnings tracing back to the Roman Empire – but demand for these payments shows no signs of abating. The North American reliance on checks may seem like an ...

The banking industry's effort to fight check fraud is likely to benefit from President Donald Trump's order to the Treasury Department to stop issuing paper checks for federal disbursements and to ...

The financial impact of fraud can devastate businesses of any size. The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners estimated in a 2024 report on global occupational fraud that “organizations lose 5% of ...

A large number of bankers are exploring whether to create stablecoins or deposit tokens with nearly all bankers saying they are concerned that Amazon or Walmart will try to pay interest on stablecoins ...