Once considered an old-fashioned crime, check washing has roared back to life with alarming sophistication. Criminals are not just targeting personal checks anymore. They are exploiting every ...

Learn how to cash a check without a bank account using retailers, issuing banks, apps or check-cashing stores. Compare fees, limits and fastest options.

Over the next six months, all federal departments and agencies will phase out the use of paper checks and switch to electronic payments, according to the White House. As the U.S. accelerates toward a ...

The check’s not in the mail. Tax filers who opted to get their IRS refunds sent to their homes said their checks never arrived and were allegedly stolen as part of a massive fraud costing millions of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Steve Weisman writes about white-collar crime. While the crime may seem like something from another era, mail theft is big ...