Mail Fraud is rampant. It is no longer safe to mail a bill payment for fear that the enclosed check will be stolen and altered.
Where are the Postal Inspectors?
There are a few thing you can do to prevent fraud. Number one is freezing your credit with the three credit agencies. The next is paying all bills online and never receiving any paper bills. Another is to use only bank ACH checks.
After three bouts of mail theft and fraud, this worked. For how long? I suppose until the thieves figure something else.
Lincolnwood, Ill for those of us who have no idea where this pace is.
Mail fraud....I will wager that the fraud is commensurate with the increased number of minority hires within the Post Office. It is rare nowadays to go into a postal facility and see whites working there. The post office has hired minorities over Caucasians as a standard hiring practice for years.
If there is no evidence of breaking into the blue mailboxes, then it’s a postal employee that is taking them and probably selling them or passing them on to an accomplice who does the actual forgery.
It may also be an employee of a postal contractor or temp/part timer worker. The kind that gets moved around to cover for regular employees taking vacations or sick days.
Spreading the thefts over multiple facilities makes it harder to spot the pattern.
We've seen the problems with FedEx in the news lately too, and not only them, but UPS as well.
About 90% of our vendor purchases are shipped UPS and I've had to put in a crazy amount of claims in lately for lost or stolen packages. They always seem to be obviously high-dollar items too, go figure.
Investigating Steve Bannon and conservative groups raising money.
Under bank regulations, you have 90 days from the time you receive your statement to report a fraudulent check. Your bank will investigate, credit your account, and debit the account of the bank of first deposit. It’s now their problem. If they were foolish enough to provide encashment for a forged check, then they’re out the money.