WFMJ

Mahoning County prosecutor giving out free anti-fraud pens

The Mahoning County Prosecutor’s Office is distributing free anti-fraud pens on Thursday to help residents protect their ...
WBAY

CONSUMER FIRST ALERT: Use gel pens to write checks

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - A Consumer First Alert about scammers going after checks you write to steal your money -- and a simple thing you can do to protect your checks. The Door County Sheriff’s ...
The New York Times

Writing Checks Can Be Risky. Here’s How to Protect Yourself.

Should you keep a separate checking account for writing checks? Is there a specific pen you should use? We answer some reader questions. By Tara Siegel Bernard Typewriters vanished, and then cassette ...
Seattle Times

Writing checks can be risky. Here’s how to protect yourself

Typewriters vanished, and then cassette tapes and encyclopedias did, too. But paper checks are one piece of our analog past that persists. American consumers and businesses wrote 11.2 billion checks ...