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Paper Checks, COVID-19 And The Flaw With Analog Relief Payments

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What is almost certain, however, Ingo Money CEO Drew Edwards and Karen Webster noted in a recent conversation, is how those payments will go out — which is by check. Amateurs and criminal gangs, he noted, will pinch checks directly from mailboxes.

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Authentication Creates Opportunity To Solve FIs' $1 Trillion Fraud Problem

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So, it might start with a counterfeit check, 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,