Advocacy Group Warns that More and More Consumers Falling for Fake
Check Scams
The National Consumers League is alerting the public to the growing
problem of fake check scams. Based on complaints reported to NCL’s National Fraud Information
Center/Internet Fraud Watch database since last December, when the fake check category was added, these
scams are now the sixth most common Internet fraud. Consumers who reported fake check scams to NCL’s
fraud programs between January 1 and June 30, 2004 lost an average of $5,000. In many cases, the contact
is initiated by email.
Read
more...