FRESNO, Calif. – The Better Business Bureau is warning that Fresno County FCU is the victim of a serious counterfeit check scam as official business checks with the credit union’s name are being sent out with a scam letter encouraging recipients to cash the checks.
The U.S. Customs & Border Patrol has confiscated one box of checks with 250 Fresno County FCU official checks coming out of Africa and being shipped to an individual in Los Angeles.
The checks were in various dollar increments ($40,000, $15,000, $7,500, $3,500 and $2,500). Each of the checks show a REF Angela Smith. The pay to the order and date are blank. The amount of potential loss in this box was over $2 million.
This was the only box the US Customs officer found but the credit union has begun receiving calls from various banks and individuals indicating they were in possession of bank checks and asked for funds to be verified.
