From identity theft to check washing the mail theft problem is troubling. A months-long KPRC2 Investigation uncovered an enterprise where organized thieves are selling stolen checks and mailbox keys for thousands of dollars online.
who have had checks stolen out of mailboxes. The checks were then washed, rewritten, made out to strangers, and cashed for thousands more. But we’ve learned what’s happening now is much bigger.
“It’s happening everywhere, but Texas, New York, California, Ohio, and Florida are by far the worst,” saidFrank Albergo is the President of the Postal Police Officer’s Association. Forget the one-off thefts where thieves go box to box to steal mail. The mail theft happening now are volume attacks.Mail carriers robbed
Thieves are robbing mail carriers at gunpoint all over the country. Ring doorbell video shows a mailman in East Houston asking homeowners to call police seconds after he was robbed on his route. Thieves want the mail but they’re also after arrow keys.One arrow key can open hundreds of mailboxes and blue postal service boxes.
on the Eastside. Cops say they found cocaine, marijuana, 120 pieces of mail, and a United States Postal Service master key. Albergo said when carriers are robbed of the keys the postal service knows which zip code is at risk but they don’t share that information with people who live there.We’ve learned crooks are selling the keys online for up to a thousand dollars. They also buy and sell checks from stolen mail in messaging apps like Telegram and What’s App.
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