Napa County officials are sounding the alarm after discovering that several mailed property-tax checks were stolen, chemically washed and then cashed under fake names. With the second installment ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Rhode Island man who is in federal prison admitted Monday that he deposited nearly $50,000 in stolen or fraudulent checks into ...

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 ...

Q: I wrote a check to the local school district tax office and then mailed it at a local post office. Somewhere between there and the tax office, the check was intercepted. The "Pay to the order of" ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A Memphis daughter and mother worry their finances are in jeopardy after they said crooks stole and washed multiple checks from three accounts. "It's really scary," said Terra, who ...

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.