"They made their own checks"

The Daily Crime

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4.3 • 627 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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An Indianapolis man has been charged with stealing $1.7 million in checks from a post office on the city's northwest side. WTHR Senior Investigative Reporter Bob Segall has been following the case for months. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up.
0:01.1	The co-conspirators, according to the indictment, they would alter the checks, use mobile banking to be able to deposit them, and got away with almost $2 million before a federal investigator stopped their spree.
0:14.3	For Volt Studios, I'm Reid Redmond.
0:16.6	You're listening to The Daily Crime.
0:35.6	The fraudsters are always one step ahead, and they figured out how to make a deposit and quickly go and withdraw the money. Mobile banking has made things a whole lot easier for millions of people during the COVID-19 pandemic.
0:41.3	But it's not just convenient for consumers.
0:44.3	John Rivida is the marketing director for SQN banking systems,
0:48.3	a company that provides fraud detection tools for banks.
0:52.3	He says mobile banking is ideal for criminals
0:55.5	because they never have to actually show up at a bank.
0:59.3	I think the challenge with mobile banking, it's faceless.
1:02.9	An investigation last year from WTHR 13 News in Indianapolis
1:07.0	found check fraud has been surging nationwide
1:09.5	as criminals use new technology to commit an old
1:12.7	crime. Four checks was $12,000. Three checks for a total of $21,000 we lost. It's a big deal. You've got to stop this
1:20.7	problem. It's unreal that the world's gotten to like this where you can't use your own mailbox.
1:26.3	People are getting away with this.
1:28.7	It doesn't seem like anybody is having to pay for what they're doing.
1:36.9	Joining us is Bob Siegel, Senior Investigative Reporter with WTHR in Indianapolis.
1:42.1	Bob, let's start with this investigation.
1:45.7	You worked on last spring.
1:49.8	Rob Fine and Harold Wilson have never met, but they have a lot in common.
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