An executive order requiring the government to stop issuing paper checks is expected to help banks, which have seen a rise in ...

Effective Sept. 30, 2025, the executive order directs the Treasury Department, which includes the IRS, to stop issuing paper ...

By the fall, all federal departments and agencies will phase out the use of paper checks and switch to electronic payments, ...

A former U.S. Postal Service employee has been found guilty of stealing nearly 100 checks, including tax refund checks, ...

An Atlanta man has admitted to orchestrating a bank fraud scheme by stealing dozens of checks from a Macon mailbox and ...

Gilroy faces a rise in mail theft and check fraud, with the police investigating and advising safer transaction methods.

Mail theft has exploded in recent years, thanks to a perfect storm of online-shopping overload and a sharp rise in check-fraud scams. It’s gotten so bad that the United States Postal Service ...

A suspect is accused of stealing checks from people’s mail, erasing information on the checks, and then cashing them at banks ...

“If people are willing to violate that trust and go and steal your money out of your mailbox or out of the U.S. Postal ...

Sheriff's deputies find scores of forged driver's licenses, phony checks and stolen mail in a traffic stop in El Paso County, ...

This investigation began on Monday, March 24, when Springville police received a report of theft and possible fraud ... printing fake IDs and stealing mail and checks to gather personal data.

Check-washing scams involve "changing the payee names and often the dollar amounts on checks and fraudulently depositing them ...