• Main
• Detect/Prevent
• Who is Responsible?
• Resources 

Fake Check Scams 

Are you a grand prize winner?  Have you won a foreign lottery?  Did you receive a check from an organization with instructions to deposit the money in your account and then wire transfer a portion of money for “processing fees” or taxes?

If this sounds familiar, you may have witnessed a fake check scam.  The number of people that fall victim to fake check scams increases every year. It is amongst the most popular scams in the United States resulting in innocent victims losing thousands of dollars.  There are many different versions of this scam, but they all end the same way.  There never was a prize or foreign lottery.  The bank will eventually determine that the deposited check was fake.  The money that you wired for “processing fees” is gone and you have to repay the bank the cost of the fake check.