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PM_Georgia_Okeefe t1_j6onvgr wrote

This isn't new. This has been going on for decades.

Thieves steal mail and then use special solvents to erase the "pay to" and "amount" fields, then cash them.

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unibball t1_j6oqa9t wrote

You would hope that any solvent used to erase the pay to entry would destroy or damage the check, at least enough to make it questionable whether or not to cash it.

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SheepImitation t1_j6p2bdo wrote

There are special pens you can use developed by Frank Abagnale Jr (the 'Catch me if you can' guy) to prevent this. If you still use checks, it's worth picking them up if you need to write the occasional check.

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