On our march to the paperless economy, a funny thing happened. Americans keep writing about a billion more checks each year. That flood includes lots of bad checks. In 1999, bank robbers got away with ...

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I got scammed out of my car by a guy passing bad checks. It happens. If someone wants to buy something from you and wants to use a check, you need to protect yourself. Because when the check is bad, ...

Bad checks passed at Wal-Mart will no longer be turned over to the Cape Girardeau County prosecutor's office. Wal-Mart has adopted a national policy of using a private collection agency for bad checks ...

Lois Burgess, administrator of Cape Girardeau County's Bad Check Unit, thought the number of bounced checks arriving in her office had dropped. Then she checked the figures. Between Jan. 1 and March ...

BLYTHEWOOD, S.C. — (AP) The South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles is starting to charge a $30 fee to bad check writers. Spokeswoman Beth Parks says those who write bad checks will get a letter ...

ST. PAUL, Neb. (KOLN) — A Grand Island woman is now charged in an additional three fraud-related cases after countless bad checks were passed around central Nebraska. Authorities arrested 29-year-old ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Checks are making a bit of a comeback a new bill would allow recipients of bad checks could charge the writer up to $60 to cover the costs of the check and related expenses.

Federal prosecutors in Fargo typically don't handle bad check cases. But the bounced check charges against former Jamestown businessman Dennis Paulsrud are anything but typical. Paulsrud, 45, a former ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WILMINGTON Twp., Pa. (WKBN) — A man accused of armed robbery and his wife are facing forgery charges after allegedly passing bad ...