Fraud fighters have infiltrated a cybercrime gang that disseminates counterfeit checks tied to a dizzying number of online scams. The fraud fighters believe the fake checks gang is using people looped into phony employment schemes and wooed through online romance scams to print the counterfeit checks. In each scheme the goal is the same: Convince the recipient to deposit the check and then wire a portion of the amount somewhere else. Most of the checks being disseminated by this fraud group are in amounts ranging from $2,500 to $5,000.”]
Source: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/06/we-infiltrated-a-counterfeit-check-ring-now-what/