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re: Stolen Checks via USPS

Posted on 5/20/26 at 8:23 pm to
Posted by nosaj
Member since Sep 2010
2682 posts
Posted on 5/20/26 at 8:23 pm to
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People who don’t want to have their banking info sitting in company databases waiting to be stolen…that;s who.


The same banking info that’s on your check? lol
Posted by Pelican13
Ratchet City, LA
Member since Jul 2013
75 posts
Posted on 5/20/26 at 8:28 pm to
Hahaha, wait a second! Switch the accounting teams up? I am accounting.
Posted by BayouBandit24
Member since Aug 2010
17182 posts
Posted on 5/20/26 at 8:38 pm to
quote:

Two weeks later it was cashed for $1500 for someone’s rent….with the apartment number in the memo. Law enforcement DGAF.


How on earth could law enforcement not care about this? Easy arrest.

Also, what ended up happening? Did the bank eat the fraudulent charge?
Posted by cajunangelle
Member since Oct 2012
167550 posts
Posted on 5/20/26 at 8:39 pm to
If you must write checks there is a pen you can buy so they cant whitewash it.

Yes its called whitewashing... its racist.
Posted by cajunangelle
Member since Oct 2012
167550 posts
Posted on 5/20/26 at 8:43 pm to
A lot of variations of pens for prevention

LINK
Posted by Smeg
Member since Aug 2018
15558 posts
Posted on 5/20/26 at 8:47 pm to
A crime ring spread across Shreveport and Atlanta... hmmmmm... the Genovese family perhaps?
Posted by pussywillows
Member since Dec 2009
6633 posts
Posted on 5/20/26 at 8:48 pm to
it's called check washing, not whitewashing
Posted by armytiger96
Member since Sep 2007
2566 posts
Posted on 5/20/26 at 8:51 pm to
People who pay their bills via their bank's app.
This post was edited on 5/20/26 at 8:57 pm
Posted by TexasTiger27
San Marcos Tx
Member since Sep 2016
526 posts
Posted on 5/20/26 at 8:51 pm to
I've been told that you can get a pen that can not be washed and changed. It can be purchased at a bank.
Posted by Marlo Stanfield
Member since Aug 2008
2286 posts
Posted on 5/20/26 at 8:55 pm to
Yes, going back a few years. We only do wire transfers now.

ETA: This is in the Houston area.
This post was edited on 5/20/26 at 8:56 pm
Posted by greenbean
USAF Retired - 31 years
Member since Feb 2019
6392 posts
Posted on 5/20/26 at 8:55 pm to
Most of these checks are stolen by postal employees/contractors/people breaking into mail boxes, so this a federal issue, not state or local. Federal Law enforcement is lazy and only wants to only investigate crimes involving huge money amounts.

It is an epidemic, in Jxn, MS, but everyone has learned not to mail checks.
Posted by lsuconnman
Baton rouge
Member since Feb 2007
5183 posts
Posted on 5/20/26 at 8:55 pm to
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How on earth could law enforcement not care about this? Easy arrest. Also, what ended up happening? Did the bank eat the fraudulent charge?


Bank reversed it with a police report. School principal thanked us for bringing it to her attention.

Edit if anyone lives at renaissance apartments, could you knock on 1511 to ask what happened?
This post was edited on 5/20/26 at 9:02 pm
Posted by armytiger96
Member since Sep 2007
2566 posts
Posted on 5/20/26 at 8:56 pm to
quote:

The same banking info that’s on your check? lol


Yes, but their less chance of a thief getting your information from stumbling onto your check, than a hacker getting behind a firewall and stealing thousands of of individuals information from a database at one time.
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