People have developed a false sense of security when it comes to checks. They feel check fraud is something that happens to someone else.

The people I've spoken told me they learned a lot more than they ever knew previously. They understand that check fraud can affect anyone if you're not careful.

Financial institutions need to address security threats across the entire risk spectrum. Integrating responses across multiple fraud detection efforts is a critical concern. Going forward, we will see the industry deploying more coordinated approaches across the enterprise to maximize the likelihood of identifying and preventing fraud attacks.

'Acceptable risk' is an oxymoron to some security people.

Today culminates a process of nearly two years to investigate and prosecute allegations of fraud against a state tax credit program that is intended to bring economic development to areas of our state most in need of growth,

Because so many of these cases come up, the person usually gets off with a misdemeanor. This is especially true if the checks are under certain dollar amounts. Criminals sometimes know more about how the judicial system works than their victims.