The Hidden Dangers of Using Paper Checks

Lessons learned from my mom getting scammed

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7 min readOct 1, 2022

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I am learning so many lessons about finance and fraud that I never wanted to know. My mom has been attacked and scammed out of most of her money. She didn’t have much to begin with but it is still a tangled web to unweave.

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