Check fraud appears to have hit several Houstonians. But one expert says it is not only check washing to be on the lookout ...

It was kind of a panic. What else have they gotten into from our checking account? You just don’t know how far it could go." ...

A Houston-area woman is out $12,000 after she dropped off her tax payment at the post office and it was allegedly stolen and altered. (KHOU 11) ...

Tax season is here, and the Brighton Police Department is warning of a surge in check washing scams. Brighton Police are ...

A dozen of the checks belonged to an 86-year-old Bay Shore woman who lost $17,315, police said, while a 73-year-old Patchogue ...

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 ...

Police officers are urging residents to be aware of “check washing,” after Mansfield police said there have been an increase ...

MURRYSVILLE, Pa. — A couple from Murrysville reported that they mailed their check to pay their monthly bill, but instead of settling their account, they became victims of a scam that cost them ...

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 ...

WAKE COUNTY, N.C. — A Wake County woman is warning others after thieves altered a check she wrote, changing the amount from $85 to $4,000. Jane O’Connor noticed the hefty check in her bank statement ...

There was a time when paying bills came with a sense of security, when people sending checks through the mail could feel certain that their money was going to the right place. That feeling of ...

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 ...