Recently Check Into Cash has learned that emails offering "at home” check cashing positions have been sent from checkintocashinc.com and checkintocashltd.com. Both these websites are fraudulent and are NOT associated with www.checkintocash.com.
Should you receive an email, purported to be from Check Into Cash, that found your resume on national job posting sites, please delete it immediately or forward it to abuse@checkintocash.com.
Types of Online Fraud
Email and fraudulent websites
Sometimes criminals may send you email that looks like it has come from Check Into Cash, Inc. These phony emails ask you to go to a website that also looks like Check Into Cash and provide your personal account information or are offering you an at home job. However, the website is a fake, and this is a fraud attempt.
This is the most common type of online fraud, and is called "phishing and spoofing". Criminals send these phony email messages or direct someone to a fraudulent website for one goal, to steal personal and financial information. Learn more
If you should ever receive an email that appears to be suspicious, do not reply to it or click on the link it provides. Simply delete it. To report a suspicious email that uses Check Into Cash's name, you can forward it to abuse@checkintocash.com.
Spyware and viruses
Spyware and viruses are both malicious programs that are loaded onto your computer without your knowledge. Whether the goal of these programs is to capture or destroy information, to ruin the performance of your computer, or to bombard you with advertising, you don't want them.
Viruses spread by infecting computers and then replicating. Spyware disguises itself as a legitimate application and embeds itself into your computer, to monitor your activity and collect information.
Spyware and viruses are both serious threats to the security of your computer. Learn more.
Pop-up advertisements
Pop-ups are the advertisements that "pop up" in a separate browser window. When you click on some of these pop-ups, it's possible that you're also downloading "spyware" or "adware."
Sometimes, criminals create pop-up ads that look like they come from a respected financial institution and ask you to enter personal financial information, but Check Into Cash and most other financial institutions will never ask you to verify personal financial information in pop-ups. Learn more
Fraudulent Phone Calls and Numbers
Vishing is the criminal practice of using social engineering and Voice over IP (VoIP) to gain access to private personal and financial information from the public for the purpose of financial reward. The term is a combination of "voice" and phishing.
When the victim answers the call, an automated recording, often generated with a text to speech synthesizer, is played to alert the consumer that their credit card has had fraudulent activity or that their bank account has had unusual activity. The message instructs the consumer to call the following phone number immediately. The same phone number is often shown in the spoofed caller ID and given the same name as the financial company they are pretending to represent.
Consumers are advised to be highly suspicious when receiving messages directing them to call and provide credit card or bank numbers. Rather than provide any information, the consumer is advised to contact their bank or credit card company directly to verify the validity of the message.
