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CHEERS to the early success of the national 988 suicide hotline.

METHUEN — Mailboxes are gold mines for criminals, Kim Sarro’s mother discovered this month after she mailed some checks to a credit card company.

Deepfakes have infiltrated Zoom calls, with a finance worker in Hong Kong unwittingly transferring $25M to scammers posing as colleagues.

A York County business almost got scammed out of thousands of dollars when it became the victim of mail theft and check washing.

Fast-developing deepfake technology means anyone on a screen may be an AI creation. It’s time to adopt authenticity cues as deepfakes join our meetings.

When Pam Berns mailed a few checks to pay bills, she had no idea such a routine task would throw her small publishing business into chaos.

A record number of suspicious activity reports tied to check fraud this year has put banks on high alert

The crime involves using checks sometimes stolen out of peoples' mailboxes and using chemicals to erase, or "wash," the ink off.

Although check usage has declined in the last couple of decades, check fraud has risen sharply, creating a problem for banks — and customers trying to pay their bills.

When Pam Berns mailed a few checks to pay bills, she had no idea such a routine task would throw her small publishing business into chaos. One of the checks, which she put in a mailbox on a Lincoln Park street in Chicago, was later stolen and rewritten for $7,200 to someone named Mark Pratt. That drained her business bank account, which meant she couldn’t pay the printer, her monthly payroll taxes or her salespeople. Nearly two months later, Berns, 76, hasn’t recovered the stolen m...