Justin Baer
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162 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2020
last heard Nov 2024
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Stealing them has been a challenge that consumers and banks have had.
And then what you have had is the emergence of social media and the ability to communicate and compare notes and teach one another different tricks of the trade in order to get this going again.
The good place to start is what happened right after COVID, where you had what was another kind of strand of fraud going on as people identified opportunities to steal stimulus checks, to exploit the loan programs that were being extended to small businesses in the area.
All that was in a hope to stimulate the economy and recover from the virus.
Eventually, those tricks and those processes kind of ran dry.
And so you had a group of people in search of a new thing and a new opportunity.
And they ended up going back to the basics, so to speak.
Checks have been around for a long time.
Stealing them has been a challenge that consumers and banks have had for as long a time as that.
And then what you have had is the emergence of social media and the ability to communicate and compare notes and teach one another different tricks of the trade in order to get this going again.
There are two sides of that.
With respect to the checks, it's every way imaginable.
You could mail a check, put it in your mailbox, and someone steals it.
You could be a recipient of, say, a check from the government, and someone steals that.
There could be an instance where someone has access to the blue mail drops outside of post offices, and they open it up, and they take all the checks out.
They know where to find this stuff, and they know what to do with them no matter what those checks look like.
So in some cases, it could be a blank check, which makes life easier for them.
But what's called a washing process, they can remove the amount, they can remove the recipient of that check, and they can rewrite it and direct it to different places.
It does.
It depends, though, on where the check is coming from.
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