Kansas City at Center of Gang Scheme That Hires Homeless People to Cash Counterfeit Checks
This is why you use should use direct deposit, and avoid homes and apartments that have those outside gang mailboxes.
The resulting investigation into mail thefts at 20 Johnson County businesses pushed Kansas City area investigators and federal prosecutors into the forefront of a national bank fraud investigation that has touched nearly all of the 48 continental United States.
About half of the 60 people prosecuted nationwide for hiring homeless people to pass electronically “cloned” — or counterfeit — business checks have been charged in Kansas City and Springfield, Mo.
In this 2013 file photo, homeless people get in line to get a bed for the night. About half of 60 people prosecuted nationwide for hiring homeless people to pass electronically “cloned” — or counterfeit — business checks have been charged in Kansas City and Springfield, Mo. | The Kansas City Star
Operation Homeless is how the U.S. Postal Inspection Service has titled its national enforcement effort, said postal inspector Steve Ryan.
“This is a huge problem for our service,” Ryan said.
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