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Scam hits casinos

Monday, March 15, 1999 | 11:21 a.m.

The Commercial Appeal newspaper in Memphis, Tenn., reported six people were arrested by the Counterfeit Crimes Task Force in Memphis after $40,000 was stolen from local companies and the casinos in nearby Mississippi.

The Task Force seized from the suspects computer equipment used to make phony payroll checks of real businesses; and laminating and printing machines used to make phony ID, the Commercial Appeal reported.

Capt. William Hardy of the Memphis Police Fraud and Document Bureau said the suspects scanned into the computer legitimate payroll checks -- including actual account numbers -- from various businesses. They then altered the payees' names and check amounts and created ID to match the names.

Most of the checks were between $400 and $600 -- money that came out of the accounts of the companies printed on the bogus payroll checks.

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