Financial Institutions Reported More Than $688 Million in Suspicious Activity in the Six Months Following FinCEN’s Alert on Mail Theft-Related Check Fraud

NEW YORK—Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), in partnership with Treasury’s Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (CI), held the sixth of ten planned events in 2024 as part of its Promoting Regional Outreach to Educate Communities on the Threat of Fentanyl (PROTECT) series of the FinCEN Exchange program, first announced in May.

Rules Address Critical Vulnerabilities in the U.S. Financial System, Protect National Security