Suad's website, Paper Weapons, has a lot of information on this subject.
Organized check fraud activity has been around for a few years. In 1996, Special Agent Keith Slotter of the FBI wrote a very telling paper on the subject. "The principal ethnic enterprises involved in illegal check fraud schemes include Nigerian, Asian (particularly Vietnamese), Russian, Armenian, and Mexican groups. The majority of the Vietnamese, Armenian, and Mexican organizations base their operations in California, especially in the Orange County, San Francisco, and Sacramento areas," according to the paper.
While the arrests in Phoenix represent a small part of the overall problem with check fraud, they do point to the fact that organized criminals see check fraud as a lucrative income stream.
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