Sentence examples for counterfeit checks from inspiring English sources

Ms. Pirro said investigators later discovered more than 100 counterfeit checks and fake identification cards.

It turned out that Mr. Abdallah had four prior arrests and had served time for passing counterfeit checks.

Some ring members made counterfeit checks; others opened fake bank accounts; still others recruited new participants in the scheme or brokered the stolen information, said the person.

In May, 2005, Worley went on trial in U.S. District Court in Boston on charges of bank fraud, money laundering, and possession of counterfeit checks.

Mr. Laster also said Secret Service agents in Las Vegas told him that several people had been arrested for trying to pass similar counterfeit checks there.

The American government says that criminals working out of Nigeria used the service to order goods with stolen credit cards and counterfeit checks, defrauding a host of American companies.

You can buy software and make a counterfeit check".

Although automobile sellers seem to have been the initial targets of the counterfeit check variation, there have been reports of attempts to defraud people who are selling boats, furniture, horses, dogs and cats.

Until yesterday, Mr. Meskini's testimony in Mr. Haouari's trial in Federal District Court in Manhattan had been a plodding account of his own career in theft and bank fraud -- aided, he said, by Mr. Haouari's expertise in counterfeiting checks and identification documents.

About that time, counterfeit travelers' checks began to turn up all along the Eastern seaboard, from Boston to Miami.

In March, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation warned banks about the use of counterfeit official checks to defraud online sellers.