A stranger offering to buy a valuable car from hundreds of miles away may sound like a stroke of luck, but it’s also the opening move in one of the oldest scams in the book. Fake-check fraud thrives ...

Scam donation checks purporting to be from the entertainment company Harrah’s have been sent to a handful of charities in what appears to be an attempt to defraud the organizations of money. The fake ...

Unlike a personal bank check, which is drawn against the account of the individual who writes it, a cashier’s check is issued by a bank or financial institution. Although cashier’s checks are ...