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metronycguy · 04-25-2005, 09:15 PM

countereit us postal moneys orders

By TOM ZELLER Jr.

Published: April 26, 2005 nyt

Fake checks have been the stock in trade of online fraud artists for years. Now authorities are noting a surge in schemes involving sophisticated counterfeiting of a different form of payment: United States postal money orders. And the fleecing of victims often begins in an e-mail in-box.

In the last six months, the F.B.I. and postal inspectors say, international forgers - mostly in Nigeria, but also in Ghana and Eastern Europe - appear to have turned new attention to the United States postal money order. More than 3,700 counterfeit postal money orders were intercepted from October to December, exceeding the total for the previous 12 months, according to postal inspectors.

Moreover, 160 arrests have been made in the United States since October in cases where people have

04-25-2005, 09:15 PM	#1
metronycguy Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: ny Posts: 5,677	new scam countereit us postal moneys orders By TOM ZELLER Jr. Published: April 26, 2005 nyt Fake checks have been the stock in trade of online fraud artists for years. Now authorities are noting a surge in schemes involving sophisticated counterfeiting of a different form of payment: United States postal money orders. And the fleecing of victims often begins in an e-mail in-box. In the last six months, the F.B.I. and postal inspectors say, international forgers - mostly in Nigeria, but also in Ghana and Eastern Europe - appear to have turned new attention to the United States postal money order. More than 3,700 counterfeit postal money orders were intercepted from October to December, exceeding the total for the previous 12 months, according to postal inspectors. Moreover, 160 arrests have been made in the United States since October in cases where people have

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