877-246-7923

Which bank? Bank of America or a Credit Union?

Exactly the same as what I just got, check payable to wireless provider but to my address.  It's a joint account with my daughter.  I have to find out if she made a recent payment to the wireless provider.  It is highly unlikely she entered our home address instead of the provider's address since payee addresses were setup last year and payments have been made without incident.  This surely appears to be another twist of the same scam.

Received a check from Northern Trust that says "Please Post This Payment for our Mutual Customer."  It is for real and legitimate. I requested a check from GoBank to be sent to my husband. (GoBank is a prepaid debit card & is evidently using this bank to send out their checks for their customers.)

I received a call from 1-877-246-1369 and they identified themselves as Mandarich Law Group trying to collect a debt that they bought from a bank.

Rcvd a check for 136.80,  it has Laura E.Mattes legit name from Lombard ,ill and her address , bottom of check has these numbers 006 296676    0719238 28  0035109978  which are probably some kind of routing numbers--- what  a Scam--  will report this check to my local bank alerting them, will copy or scan and sent info to my States Attorney general Lisa Madigan, will catch my postal mailman and have him inform Postal Inspectors,,   WiLL also inform the federal fraud people.     who are these fraudsters ??

Did u find out what company this was for

I received one of these checks today in the mail came with my sons Address on . It is a Scam .. sad people have to be such jerks.

Received a check from Northern Trust.  I called the number and it was a Bank of America customer service automatic response.  I was recently dealing with BofA, and the amount was the same.  Since I thought it was a legitimate check, I did deposit it to my savings account in case it came back to haunt.  Lo and behold, it was taken out of my checking account with an additional 'returned check' fee.  So, that is probably how they are making their money by collecting returned check fees.
I regret that I did not check this out before depositing the check.  Fortunately, it was only small amount fee, but the whole business (difficult to track and get a response from) is fraudulent.  

I am sorry this is not a scam , I wrote a comment yesterday about my son sending me a check and it came out that it was a Billing service. Sorry for being wrong with this company.

Don't throw away the check!  I got one today for $2,766 and it had my own name as the account it was drawn on.  Of course, my initial reaction was SCAM and I was about to throw it away ... until I remembered that I sent myself $2,766 from Bill Pay on my bank account to give to my husband for a trip we're taking!  I'm so glad I didn't throw it away!  I just never knew what my Bill Pay checks looked like because I never send them to myself.  Check it out before you throw it!

i got a check from P.C.H. but is its from Shaw Advantage Account TradeOne Marking Account dba brandmuscle pay to the order of me  5.979.66 ck#36966 i do suspect fraudulent

[This message was posted on Feb. 14, 2014, 91 days after the date on the check mentioned below.]

On Nov. 20, 2013, I received a one-page piece of snail mail. The bottom of the page was a $100 check. The middle of the page was blank.

(1) At the top of the page was what appeared to be a return address (the check indicates that this address is for Wells Fargo, but it is for the John Muir Health Center in San Francisco, CA, and the Department number given does not exist):

Dept. #34033
PO BOX 39000
SAN FRANCISCO CA 94139

(2) After two lines of numbers, there is the address for what seems to be a debt collector:

NATIONAL LOAN RECOVERIES, LLC
PO BOX 4566
STAMFORD CT 06907-0566

(3) The check says:

THE BACK OF THIS CHECK CONTAINS A SECURITY MARK - DO NOT ACCEPT WITHOUT HOLDING AT AN ANGLE TO VERIFY SECURITY MARK
Post to Account: 5329041897618135    $100.00    11/15/2013

["Post to Account" always means "Deposit this money into the following account," and the account number isn't mine!]

(4) In the upper left corner of the check is the name and address of what seems to be the owner of the checking account on which this $100 is drawn:

Jennifer [private information removed]
Her phone there is given as [removed].
Her zip code there: 23953 [According to zip-area.com, this zip code doesn't exist in the United States (the closest zip would be 32953 for Merritt Island, FL). However, it is used in some other countries, such as for the town of Angra dos Reis in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.]

(5) The rest of the check is as follows:

[Wells Fargo logo]
Please post this payment for Our Mutual Customer [This doesn't say to pay the $100 TO anybody; it says to pay it FOR "Our Mutual Customer." Who is included in the word "our?" Who is the "Mutual Customer? Me? A creditor? A scammer?]

Please Direct Any Questions To 800-956-4442 or [This is not the Wells Fargo Customer Service number, which is 800-869-3557. 800-956-4442 is a telemarketer, according to Spokeo reports.]

Please Return Check To
WELLS FARGO BANK, NA
Dept #34033, PO BOX 39000, San Francisco, CA 94139 [This non-existent Department number is at an address for the John Muir Health Center in San Francisco, CA, not for Wells Fargo Bank.]
9600055846 1202503900 [These are apparently the account number and check number.]
56-382/412 1202503900 [The last number here is apparently the check number.]

November 15, 2013

PAY One Hundred and 00/100 Dollars   $***100.00 VOID 90 DAYS AFTER ISSUE
TO THE ORDER OF NATIONAL LOAN RECOVERIES, LLC
PO BOX 4566
STAMFORD CT 06907-0566

[The above instruction says to pay the $100 to National Loan Recoveries, not to me.]

[Illegible two-name signature]
Wells Fargo as agent for its customer. [Since when does a bank sign a check for its customer, having suddenly become the customer's agent without any legal document wherein the customer grants an agency relationship to the bank? And why is the name of the signer not printed out so it can be understood? Why is Jannifer Rattry, the account owner, not signing her own check?]

Security Features Details on Back
(bar code)

Wells Fargo Bank, NA
115 Hospital Drive [This is a legitimate Wells Fargo address, which means nothing.]
Van Wert, OH 45891

Memo: _____
||* 1202503900||* |:041203824|:  9600055846||*
[These 3 numbers are apparently the check number, routing number, and account number on which the $100 will supposedly be drawn.]

(6) On the back of the check, there is the number M018570795. There is also a circle with the letters "fis," corresponding to the FIS watermark on the back of the check. Below the circle it says:

LOGO PRINTED WITH INK THAT RESPONDS TO WARMTH. HOLD BETWEEN THUMB AND FOREFINGER OR BREATHE ON IT - THE LOGO WILL FADE AND REAPPEAR.

[So I put my thumb on the circled "fis," unwittingly giving my thumbprint to whoever issued this check: identity theft right down to the fingerprint!]

[BOTTOM LINE: MY NAME DOESN'T APPEAR ANYWHERE ON THIS CHECK. IT IS A MISH-MASH OF NAMES AND ADDRESSES. THE INSTRUCTIONS WERE DESIGNED TO DECEIVE ME. DO NOT TRY TO DEPOSIT OR CASH THIS TYPE OF CHECK. TEAR IT UP.]

PLEASE delete this!

It could potentially set an innocent person up for some very serious Identity Theft!!!

your an idiot............. simply because YOU were scammed does not mean you should go around saying what you say to others. I receive checks from my brother in AZ all the time through this very banking service.

Maybe you work for a 'mailing service competitor and YOU are the BIG FAT LIRE. Yeah, that's what it is........your the Big Fat Lie. SCAMMER!!!!!!!!!!

Georgy brother of Latishy This whole thread is full of how this is a big SCAM! Why are you two heathens trying to distort the truth? Here we call you SHILLS, it's you two spreading lies, we also call you POSER's

My check was sent directly to my bank with my account number and the bank deposited it in my account without asking me. The name on the check did not match the name of the person who said he was sending an amount from his credit card for work.
People this is one of those Nigerian Scams! Where they befriend you.....send you money to deposit in check form for you to do "charity" work...which is cashing the check western union the money to a sick child or person in Nigeria and then 7-10days later your the check bouncing in your account from the amount they sent you and you took out to send to the sick kid.

THE CHECK IS A SCAM!!! DO NOT CASH!

CUA, PO Box 182477, Columbus, OH 43218-2477 Tx: 800-848-1337 is the online payment processing center for my "pay online bills" through my credit union (and many other bill processing places). I am a member of Meijer Credit Union in Michigan.  when they send out bills for me they are supposed to put the account number on the check...but only if I supplied it when I set up the account.  

I received a check for $16.  Thought it was a scam, but remembered that I had $16 in an account that was from a payment app on my phone, that I don't use.  The check was from me at my old address, and was sent to me at my new address.  Since I got the phone and signed up for this payment system at the old address, I am assuming it is the $16 that was in that account.

it is simply a money order.  I just received one from my niece who purchased something from my daughter and sent me a money order as payment.

I got the same check with the same envelope and a lightly varied detail on the check.