In the Ferrise’s article pertaining to Ms. Sherelle Brugin-Evans, he outlines the capture and high-level details of the Ms. Evans and her husband whom the U.S Marshals refer to as the “modern day Bonnie and Clyde” (Department of Justice, U.S. Marshals Task Force, 2013). Ms. Evans created her own opportunity of access to checks by creating her own. She collected individual data for checks and bank accounts in two ways, falsifying social security numbers which she used to obtain false driver’s licenses. She was eventually detected at the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles which finally identified her use of false social securities numbers.

Ms. Evans would use her false identification cards to forge documents. She and her husband ran a gang that used fake W-2s to obtain false checks from the state. However, this was only one of the many check tampering frauds she committed. The second such fraud was for her and her gang to produce fake checks and have members of the gang cash the checks around town. She had a history of forging the SSNs and licenses. Although not highlighted in the article, it would be within her to use the falsified identities on the checks to ensure they could be cashed. The use of these identities would also assist her and her group to get around internal controls of banks or stores and help her conceal the theft. Lastly, she is accused of using company bank account information to forge checks (Ferrise, 2013). She established a pattern of forging checks. She caused companies and people to lose money based on stolen or tampered checks. Therefore completing two types of check tampering: forged maker and forged endorsement.

Forged makers schemes involve forging an authorized signature on a company check. Ms. Evans both forged individual and company checks. She acquired blank checks fraudulently and signed the checks payable to