The Brief
- Alan Sayler said he was the victim of check fraud in 2025 after mailing a check in a locked USPS business mailbox.
- He said he caught the fraud attempt and did not lose money.
- Sayler said he wants someone to take this issue seriously.
PINELLAS PARK, Fla. – Alan Sayler, the owner of Sayler’s Suncoast Water, said he mailed a check from the USPS mailbox outside his business last summer — but it was stolen and used to commit fraud against him.
“I finally saw a check come through in an amount that I didn’t recognize, and I was able to click on ‘open the check,’” Sayler said. “And, I saw the name on the check, and I’m going ‘who is this? I don’t know who that is.'”
He said he caught it in time, and called his bank, stopping the check before he lost any money. …