Event Marks Culmination of Year-Long, Nationwide Public-Private Effort to Deepen Collaboration in the Fight Against Illicit Opioids

VIENNA, Va.—This week, 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 final planned event of its year-long Promoting Regional Outreach to Educate Communities on the Threat of Fentanyl (PROTECT) series of the FinCEN Exchange program.

Today, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is issuing Spanish translations of its February 2023 alert to financial institutions on the nationwide surge in check fraud schemes targeting the U.S. Mail and its September 2024 Financial Trend Analysis (FTA) on mail theft-related check fraud incidents based on Bank Secrecy Act data filed in the six months following the publication of the alert.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has joined five federal financial regulatory agencies and state financial regulators in issuing a statement today to provide supervised institutions with examples of risk management and other practices that may be effective in combatting elder financial exploitation. Older adults who experience financial exploitation can lose their life savings and financial security and face other harm.