Crime & Safety
Bank Stops Thousands of Dollars in Checks in Scam on Milton Business
The following information was supplied by the Milton police department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.
The owner of Bethany Bend Urgent Care reported her business checking account was subjected to four fraudulent check attempts, each for $3,990.
Each time her bank stopped the checks from being paid out, she told Milton police on Dec. 11.
The checks were part of a scam in which random people were sent the checks to cash in return for sending gift cards to the scammer. Those people were asked to do a fake survey on Walmart. In return, they would get to keep the "excess" cash.
The fraudulent checks sent out used a different font for her business name, abbreviated Urgent Care to U.C. and left off the business phone number.
The business owner plans to close the account once she has cleared some bills.
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