Ten days after mailing a $1,640 check through the U.S. Postal Service, a Hilton Head couple found the sum had been “mobile deposited” into the bank account of a man they didn’t know .
Over the next two months, the couple caught two more instances of criminals trying to drain their wallets via fraudulent checks. But the transfers’ check numbers didn’t line up — one belonged to a check still sitting in the wife’s checkbook, she told police. The other number didn’t even exist in her registry.
Sheriff’s deputies believed the fraudsters stole the first check from the mail and used it as a “template” to make copies, then attempted to cash the fake checks into their own accounts…