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Regional banking network NYCE says ATM crimes at automated teller machines have dropped 35% since the ATM Consumer Safety Law passed in 1992.

"Thanks!" to Chuck Lelinski, Security Officer of the First Financial Bank in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for sending us a front page story from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinal newspaper.

A typical family writes 20 to 25 checks per month.

The Chinese were the first to use "money", about 2000 years ago.

by Brooke Blake

It would take three years, spending $1,000 a day, to go through $1 million dollars. If you had $1 billion dollars, and spent $1,000 a day, it would take 3,000 years to get rid of it all.

MasterCard and Visa are accepted at almost 12 million locations; American Express at 3.6 million; and Discover at 1.8 million.

Summertime is approaching-the time for vacations, trips, souvenirs...and counterfeit traveler's checks!

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Question: In the article about the bad government checks, you made mention of the fact that the counterfeit green checks did not have a symbol in the right hand top corner.