Detecting document fraud

When Blake Miner of south Florida received a letter from a bank in another part of the state about an account that he’d never opened, he took the matter to the police. They soon found out that a mother and daughter in central Florida, Jessica Chechile and Heather Steverson, opened the account in Miner’s name with notarized paperwork claiming to be his power of attorney (POA). Miner says he never signed the POA document or authorized a signature on his behalf. The account had deposited checks from ModivCare, a health care company based in Denver, Colorado. An image of a deposited check that Miner showed to police misspelled his name.