Sentence examples for check scams from inspiring English sources

Home improvement scams, bait and switch mortgages, fake check scams, Internet "coaching service" schemes and loan swindles are all on the rise, the report finds.

The top categories of fraud included imposter scams, telephone and mobile services, sweepstakes and lotteries, shop-at-home and catalog sales and counterfeit check scams, among others.

For tips on how to avoid check scams, click here.

The big box store has fallen victim to fake check scams several times in the past few months.

Fake check scams are on the rise, according to the Federal Trade Commission, but it's usually innocent people -- not stores like Walmart and Kroger -- that are the victims.

Some check scams seem like job offers.

If you've been running around the book of Faces lately, you'll see these little advertisements for some sort of government check scam – pay $1.99 or something for a CD that tells you how to get nonexistent government grants.

First, it is probably related to a fake check scam.

If you feel as if you have been subjected to a fake check scam through the postal service, you may contact a group referred to as the "U.S Postal Inspection Service" online or by calling the post office in your community.

Its mission: to combat fraudulent-check scams.

On Oct. 3 (the same day it launched that ad campaign), the USPS announced the results of an 8-month investigation into fraudulent-check scams.