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Article: Check Fraud Losses Rise Despite a Drop in Cases.
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- American Banker
- Article date:
- December 9, 1998
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By STEVEN MARJANOVIC A slight decrease in the number of check fraud attempts in recent years might lull bankers into a false sense of security, a top industry official says.
A survey by the American Bankers Association has found that check fraud attempts fell to 288,546 in 1997, down from an estimated 399,300 cases in 1995.
But bank losses from check fraud were $512 million in 1997, up from $487 million in 1995.
Dick Clausen, senior vice president of BankAmerica Corp. and chairman of the ABA's deposit account fraud committee, said he suspects that the problem's true extent has been masked by the way banks report check fraud losses.
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