❗️Be careful when mailing checks. Criminals can steal them, change the payee’s name to theirs and, additionally, the amount of money.
The USPS reported a recent surge in attacks on letter carriers and mail fraud, stating that 305 mail carriers were robbed in the first half of FY23, compared with 412 last year. Many of the USPS’s thefts occurred when mail was taken from its flagship blue collection boxes — a recent series of thefts in Wisconsin led to more than 900 stolen checks.
See also: U.S. consumer confidence leaps to 17-month high on waning inflation and fewer recession worries Banks issued roughly 680,000 reports of check fraud to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, also known as FinCEN, last year. That’s up from 350,000 reports in 2021. Meanwhile the U.S. Postal Inspection Service reported roughly 300,000 complaints of mail theft in 2021, more than double the prior year’s total.
“If you are choosing to mail a check, it is always recommended that you use a secure mail drop such as inside a post office versus an unsecured public-facing mailbox,” Caitlin Driscoll of the Better Business Bureau told CBS Pittsburgh.
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