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Qchex: a scary online check company
Posted on Aug 18, 2006 by Tom Fragala
Ted Richardson has a post on Qchex. I blogged about them in May 2005 over on scamsafe.com. They make it criminally easy to commit check fraud, or even worse, demand draft fraud. I was even contacted by NBC television about Qchex and I going to write a long article about them. A Santa Barbara police officer I talked to about Qchex (he’s now with the Beverly Hills PD) told me it was remarkable how simple fraud was with Qchex. So much so, that he asked me to tell the TV guys to not do a story—and that I not write write about it. He didn’t want the word to get out because, according to him, even a halfwit could use it.
Even more striking was this. A short time later, I was talking to a couple of fraud investigators for a large bank. Really nice guys. I asked them about Qchex and they just smiled and didn’t say anything. I asked again and they just kept smiling. That’s when I knew it was bad news. My advice: if you see an email, check or document that says Qchex on it, do not trust it.
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