{"id":7483,"date":"2014-05-03T09:34:44","date_gmt":"2014-05-03T14:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=7483"},"modified":"2014-05-03T09:35:47","modified_gmt":"2014-05-03T14:35:47","slug":"rip-off-alert-thieves-steal-mail-to-aid-check-washing-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2014\/05\/03\/rip-off-alert-thieves-steal-mail-to-aid-check-washing-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Rip-Off Alert: Thieves steal mail to aid check-washing scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font: bold 12px\/normal Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left; color: #000000; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">LAS VEGAS (KSNV MyNews3.com) &#8211; 5\/2\/2014\u00a0\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font: 12px\/normal Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left; color: #000000; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>\u201cCheck washing,\u201d the process of erasing details from checks to allow them to be rewritten continues to attract victims.<\/span><br style=\"font: 12px\/normal Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left; color: #000000; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\" \/><br style=\"font: 12px\/normal Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left; color: #000000; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\" \/><span style=\"font: 12px\/normal Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left; color: #000000; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Julie DiMaggio had written a check to her copy service for her law office. When she later checked her bank statement, she realized something was wrong. <\/span><br style=\"font: 12px\/normal Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left; color: #000000; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\" \/><br style=\"font: 12px\/normal Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left; color: #000000; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\" \/><span style=\"font: 12px\/normal Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left; color: #000000; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">\u201cThe check cashed for $2,100,\u201d DiMaggio said. \u201cAnd I had actually written it for $125.\u201d Video will load below. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mynews3.com\/content\/news\/local\/story\/rip-off-alert-check-washing-mail-theft-business\/4TK5gcYArEqWr4ohuDZfYQ.cspx\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/eplayer.clipsyndicate.com\/embed\/iframe?aspect_ratio=3x2&amp;auto_next=0&amp;auto_start=0&amp;page_count=1&amp;pf_id=10563&amp;pl_id=25504&amp;rel=3&amp;show_title=0&amp;tags=news_local&amp;va_id=5084333&amp;volume=8&amp;windows=1\" width=\"425\" height=\"330\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/1aaa-video-postal-news-sm.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7419\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/1aaa-video-postal-news-sm.gif\" alt=\"1aaa-video-postal-news-sm\" width=\"250\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS (KSNV MyNews3.com) &#8211; 5\/2\/2014\u00a0\u2014\u00a0\u201cCheck washing,\u201d the process of erasing details from checks to allow them to be rewritten continues to attract victims.Julie DiMaggio had written a check to her copy service for her law office. When she later checked her bank statement, she realized something was wrong. \u201cThe check cashed for $2,100,\u201d DiMaggio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usps-news","category-video-gallery","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7484,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7483\/revisions\/7484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}