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NEWS ABOUT: check fraud

check fraud stories: 7 news summaries

ID-Theft Ring Victimized Bernanke

Thieves used pickpocketed IDs, checkbooks for fraud

Aug 27, 09 2:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - No less a public figure than the chairman of the Federal Reserve was one of 500 individuals victimized by an identity-theft ring that combined technologically sophisticated methods with old-fashioned thievery to bilk $2.1 million from consumers and financial institutions, Newsweek reports. The ringleader of the group, Clyde Austin Gray... More »

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Ben Bernanke • Starbucks • Federal Reserve • identity theft • bank fraud • check fraud • financial data • Anna Bernanke

 'Cahier's Check' Typo
 Sinks Fraud Scam 

Thief ordered phones
to FBI office, but
agents were waiting

May 9, 09 3:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Tennessee man is being held on two counts of forgery in a scheme that included fake cashier’s checks spelled “cahier’s” and the delivery of merchandise to an FBI office, the Monroe News Star reports. The Monroe FBI received a package of refurbished cell phones and... More »

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FBI • Tennessee • smartphones • check fraud • typographical error • stolen merchandise

Arrest No. 3 for Casey Anthony

Mom of missing 3-year-old Caylee charged (again) for check fraud, theft

Sep 15, 08 3:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - Casey Anthony was rearrested today during a routine visit to the official administering her home confinement, the Orlando Sentinel reports. The mother of missing 3-year-old Caylee Anthony is charged with theft and check fraud; the new counts appear to go above and beyond previous theft and fraud charges that saw... More »

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Florida • theft • kidnapping • house arrest • arrest • check fraud • Casey Anthony • Caylee Anthony

Caylee's Mom Charged With Theft, Fraud

Faces 3rd arrest as protesters dog suspected killer

Sep 12, 08 4:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Casey Anthony, the mother of missing 3-year-old Caylee, was officially charged yesterday with grand theft, ID fraud and check forgery involving a friend, Florida Today reports. After being busted on child neglect—and the theft charges unconnected to her daughter’s disappearance—Anthony could now face a third arrest on... More »

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child neglect • grand theft • check fraud • Casey Anthony • Caylee Anthony

 Casey Anthony Busted Again 

Crowd shouts 'baby killer' as mother of missing child arrested for check fraud 

Aug 30, 08 6:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - Casey Anthony, bailed out of jail last week on charges connected with the disappearance of her 3-year-old daughter Caylee, was rearrested last night on check fraud and theft charges. A crowd outside her parents' Florida home cheered and jeered, calling her a murderer and baby killer, as officers led her... More »

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theft • arrest • missing child • check fraud • Casey Anthony • Caylee Anthony

Ex-Olympian Gets 46 Months for Check Fraud

Tim Montgomery, former 100m record holder, jailed

May 17, 08 6:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - Disgraced Olympic gold medalist Tim Montgomery was sentenced to 46 months yesterday for his part in a check-fraud scam, the Washington Post reports. Montgomery, who still faces heroin-dealing charges, once held the 100m world record but was stripped of it for doping. He has a son with Marion Jones, who... More »

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athlete • doping • track and field • Marion Jones • check fraud • Tim Montgomery

 Man Tries to Cash $360B Check 

21-year-old says girlfriend's mother gave him the money

May 1, 08 2:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - A 21-year-old Texas man has been busted for attempting to deposit a $360 billion check, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports, stolen from his girlfriend's mother for, he claimed, the purpose of starting his own record label. Suspicious of the sum, the bank called the check’s owner. Arriving police found... More »

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fraud • Texas • crime • bank • music label • bank fraud • check • check fraud

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