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Amateurs and criminal gangs, he noted, will pinch checks directly from mailboxes. Professionals will set up advanced printing shops to create scores of professional looking counterfeitchecks.
So, it might start with a counterfeitcheck, but it comes from social engineering from social media,” she offered as an example. And on top of it all, as People’s United Bank’s Boyer noted, there’s still old fashioned fraud with which to grapple, too. “So,
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