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The Check Is (Lost) In the Mail

Checks worth at least $534,000 have gone missing after being mailed in Frederick County, Virginia. Authorities in the region suspect it may be an inside job, and that the checks are being stolen from envelopes only after they are turned over to the postal service.

“We believe from the complaints it is from mail that has been deposited into the blue boxes and inside the post office,” Sheriff Lenny Millholland told the Daily Signal. “I know they are deposited into our postal facility and our blue boxes, but what happens to mail once it is in the system remains to be seen.”

The scope of the problem hasn’t stopped growing. One customer contacted the sheriff’s office on Aug. 31 to say she had mailed two different packets of checks from Winchester to Dallas in early July, but neither arrived.

The check fraud isn’t limited to Frederick County. Authorities in Clarke and Loudoun Counties have also reported disappearing checks. Sheriff Millholland warns this may be part of a massive check washing operation that may exist far beyond Virginia.

“Check washing scams involve changing the payee names and often the dollar amounts on checks and fraudulently depositing them. Occasionally, these checks are stolen from mailboxes and washed in chemicals........

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