If you're a victim of check fraud: Reach out to your bank, local police and the USPIS immediately. Banks may be able to ...

Criminals use chemicals to “wash” away the recipent's name and dollar amount, and then rewrite the check to themselves.

Mail theft and check fraud now cost Americans over $20 billion a year. Learn how checks are stolen, washed, and cashed—and ...

A Tennessee county mailed a check for $881.08. By the time the payment was altered, officials said, it had become a ...

Williamson County commissioners voted to write off $20K after a check-washing scam. Here's what the county is doing to ...

Some tax payment checks in the town of Brookhaven were stolen and cashed. It’s a process called check washing. Someone intercepts a check, changes the information on it and cashes it without the ...

A California couple thought their quarterly tax payment had been handled. The check had cleared, the money had left their ...

A Long Island woman says her efforts to avoid check washing didn't keep her from being robbed, calling the experience ...

Check washing thieves have struck again, but this time, a Long Island woman says she took every precaution and still got robbed. CBS News New York's Carolyn Gusoff explains how.