Meanwhile, fake cashiers checks are as old as cashiers checks. There's nothing new about this, but technology progresses, the checks are harder to counterfeit, but then the counterfeiters catch up with the technology and get ahead of the banks, who then catch up with the counterfeiters, and it goes on and on and on.
Again, it's nothing new, it's not a rare phenomenon. Just because you never heard about it when you lived somewhere else, before the internet shoved information up our noses 24/7, doesn't mean these things never happened, or - never happened in your neighborhood. You really don't KNOW what went on back then, because - no internet. No cable TV. It didn't exist. There were no cell phones, there was no twitter, there was no CSI or reality TV.
Check fraud is OLD news. Banks are being more cautious, because there are more vulnerable people than ever who are targets waiting to be defrauded.
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