Could proliferation of fraud finally kill the paper check?

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Early in 2020, a man named Isaiah Jordan obtained an “arrow” key stolen from the U.S. Postal Service. Jordan passed the key to a man named Brian Nevils, who used it to steal mail from blue collection boxes in and around Carbondale, Ill. Jordan used social media to recruit people (aka, money mules) willing to use their bank accounts in his check washing conspiracy; he also helped willing accomplices who didn’t have a bank account of their own open an online account at Discover Bank.

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