A Houston woman says she lost $24,000 after dropping a check into a U.S. Postal Service collection box, raising concerns ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Despite seeming retro, check fraud is experiencing a surprising resurgence, with criminals stealing billions of dollars through these schemes. According to the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), ...

Check washing is a form of fraud where criminals steal mail and use common household chemicals to erase the ink on the "pay ...

ROSS TOWNSHIP, Pa. — An investigation is underway into a check washing scheme, with all of the cases coming back to one Allegheny County post office. The Ross Township Police Department says it’s ...

POWELL, Ohio — The Powell Police Department says it’s working with the United States Postal Service to determine who is stealing checks from the blue boxes outside the Powell Post Office. Police were ...

A U.S. Postal Service employee checks a blue mail collection box in this agency photo. Taxpayers and others across North Carolina have fallen victim to check-washing scams after their checks were ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) – A Bronx man is accused of swindling more than $20,000 through check washing, according to the Suffolk County Police Department. John Dematteo, 58, faces multiple charges of grand ...

A Palm Beach resident discovered that her $40,000 property tax check was altered and cashed by someone else — leading to the third check washing-related arrest in Palm Beach in a month. Check washing ...