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2. Check-Kiting: How To See the Warning Signs - AOL

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   The multiple check writing and depositing makes it appear that the money is in the two accounts and helps the person committing fraud to obtain an illegal, interest-free loan. Signs of Check-Kiting

3. How To Avoid Fake Check Scams - AOL

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   Check-kiting: Check-kiting happens when a thief opens accounts at two or more banks to create fraudulent balances and takes advantage of the time it takes for checks to clear. Depositing a bad ...

4. What Is a Certified Check and How Do You Get One? - AOL

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   Signs of a Fraudulent Check The check is missing security features like watermarks, security threads and color-changing ink. It’s missing the payer’s or the bank’s address.

5. Check kiting - Wikipedia

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   Check kiting or cheque kiting (see spelling differences) is a form of check fraud, involving taking advantage of the float to make use of non-existent funds in a checking or other bank account. In this way, instead of being used as a negotiable instrument , checks are misused as a form of unauthorized credit .

6. Can Someone Steal Bank Info From a Check? - AOL

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   The United States Postal Inspection Service recovers more than $1 billion in fraudulent check and money orders. Forged and Altered Checks: If a check is stolen, it can be manipulated or cashed by ...

7. Cashier’s Check Scams: How To Avoid Them - AOL

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   Cashier’s checks are generally considered a safe and secure payment method, but can you get scammed on a cashier’s check? Yes — common cashier’s check scams involve getting the victim to ...

8. List of scams - Wikipedia

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   The scam then becomes an advance-fee fraud or a check fraud. A wide variety of reasons can be offered for the trickster's lack of cash, but rather than just borrow the money from the victim (advance fee fraud), the con-artist normally declares that they have checks which the victim can cash on their behalf and remit the money via a non ...

9. Is that a scam? How to recognize and report fraudulent behavior

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   Security scams: someone offering a free home security check but may be plotting a robbery Home improvement scams: someone offers a free estimate and claims there's damage that needs to be fixed