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The eBearing News
August 21, 2003
Counterfeiting Scheme Targets SKF Payroll Checks
copyright © 2003 eBearing Inc.
An Aiken, South Carolina gang used counterfeit payroll checks from nearby
SKF Automotive Division in Graniteville to net at least $30,000, said Police.
The five-week scheme apparently involved eight suspects passing at least fifteen counterfeit SKF payroll
checks in the area. The fake checks were apparently created by one of the gang using a home computer
and high-quality color printer.
Virtually all of the suspects have now been apprehended and charged, a job they made considerably easier for
law enforcement authorities by using their real names on the checks.
eBearing spoke to an FBI agent who
suggested the criminals lacked the documents needed to pass themselves off under
another identity. Businesses require proper identification,
such as a driver's license, when a check is presented, so the counterfeiters were forced to use their real names.
The agent noted this amateurish effort still netted $30,000 -- and illustrates just another way businesses have
been forced to become far more cautious
about the security, quality and origin of every important business document, not just checks.
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