Criminals use chemicals to “wash” away the recipent's name and dollar amount, and then rewrite the check to themselves.

A Tennessee county mailed a check for $881.08. By the time the payment was altered, officials said, it had become a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ten days after mailing a $1,640 check through the U.S. Postal Service, a Hilton Head couple found the sum had been “mobile ...

Mail theft and check fraud now cost Americans over $20 billion a year. Learn how checks are stolen, washed, and cashed—and ...

The checks are in the mail, and unfortunately thieves these days are well aware of that. Reports of mail theft are soaring nationwide, as criminal rings now steal, "wash," and rewrite personal checks.

Checks for thousands of dollars continue to vanish from the mail in the Hilton Head Island area, and within a week, several locals’ funds were targeted by an evasive group of check-washers, according ...

A Lombard couple is out thousands of dollars after they wrote two checks, not even close to that amount. They said they're victims of a check washing scheme, and believe it is taking place at their ...

Roger Kaufman, of Massapequa, had two checks washed. One was his tax bill which never made it to the receiver of taxes, and ...

The checks are in the mail and, unfortunately thieves these days are well aware of that. Reports of mail theft are soaring nationwide, as criminal rings now steal, “wash” and rewrite personal checks.