check fraud
Fake payment crime
Check fraud is the criminal act of using checks to obtain money or goods illegally—writing checks on accounts with insufficient funds, forging signatures, altering check amounts, or creating counterfeit checks.
Despite declining check usage, it remains common because checks are easy to manipulate: He was convicted of check fraud after passing dozens of bad checks at local businesses.
- white collar crimeNonviolent financial wrongdoing
- forged signatureFraudulently imitated handwritten name
- paperhangingAffixing decorative sheets to walls
- alterationAct of modifying
- financial lossNegative monetary outcome
account takeover · signature forgery · banking regulations · federal crime · criminal charges · legal penalties · bounced · routing number · criminal law · civil litigation · imprisonment · kiting · reputational harm · phishing scams · insufficient funds · financial crime · felony · fake
- financial frauddefalcation, embezzler, peculation, fraudster, embezzlement
- crimesarson, burglary, robbery, kidnapping, vandalism
- fraudscam, swindle, con, deceive, cheat
- embezzlementpeculation, defalcation, misuse of funds, misappropriation, siphoning
- financial crimesmoney laundering, Ponzi scheme, insider trading, investment scams, ponzi scheme
- forgeriesforged passport, forged signature, fake passport, fake ID, counterfeit
check fraudidentity theft
Stealing personal data criminally
wire fraud · credit card fraud · money laundering · embezzlement · forgery