WESTPORT, CT (WFSB) – Police in Westport said they are investigating a rise in so-called “check washing” cases.
He said the checks were stolen from both residential and US Postal Service mailboxes in Westport.
Police described check washing as the process of erasing details from previously completed checks so that a suspect could rewrite them, most of the time with an increase in dollar amounts. After that the checks are cashed.
In most cases, the checks were in mailboxes awaiting pickup by postal workers.
Police suggested that people avoid putting checks in free-standing mailboxes and instead complete transactions electronically or leave the checks inside the post office.
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