Not the right kind of mailbox for cheques
Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Envelopes containing payment orders or checks are being stolen by fraudsters, and the Vaud cantonal police have issued a warning for people not to post such envelopes in outdoors mailboxes but to leave them in the mailboxes inside post offices.
Letters containing checks are stolen, and the name on the check is changed in favour of one of the members of the gang, then deposited. In another variation, payment orders may have the beneficiaries’ details changed, also in favour of the gang.
Vaud police add that they have received complaints of fraud involving several hundreds of thousands of francs in recent weeks.
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News story, GenevaLunch, 23 December 2009.
Filed under: Society
Tags: check, cheque, Lausanne, mail fraud, mailboxes, payment order, post office, scam, Switzerland, Vaud
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