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A number of check scams perpetuated by organized crime are now occurring. However they are getting checking account numbers, they then debit them for a sum ($29.95 seems to be popular right now). Enough people don't stop the charge that they are making enormous sums of money. Some are elaborate to the point where they even provide a phone number to a boiler room staffed with people to tell the person the fake charge is legitimate. They usually claim it is a porn or online gambling charge and that a member of their family (and they have these names somehow often) used their "service" even though they never did.