The general pitch may be built around a sob story, a promise of lottery winnings, a foreign business offer or a work-at-home opportunity. But the bottom-line offer is the same: We'll send you a check, ...

ATLANTA — A metro Atlanta woman only discovered criminals were using her identity to scam others when she came home to a porch full of returned packages. Channel 2 Consumer Investigator Justin Gray ...

Unlike a personal bank check, which is drawn against the account of the individual who writes it, a cashier’s check is issued by a bank or financial institution. Although cashier’s checks are ...

A St. John the Baptist Parish grand jury handed up 43 indictments on 130 counts of theft for people involved in check cashing scams, District Attorney Tom Daley said during a press conference Thursday ...

Sometimes it comes by surprise, other times while you’re expecting some sort of payment: a check in the mail, sometimes for a few thousand dollars. The check comes with instructions asking you to ...

The Billings Police Department has recently investigated check-cashing scams in the Billings area and is advising residents to be cautious when contacted by unknown people requesting help with bank or ...

— -- Check schemes are spreading across the USA as scamsters exploit the popularity of online auction, dating and social-networking sites to find victims. The scams have grown so prevalent that ...

It was bad enough when Wisconsin lost its reputation for clean government thanks to legislator's pay-to-play shakedowns and caucuses-turned-election-mills over at the state Capitol. Now we're seeing ...

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