It's also not just fake stamps that you need to be wary of with these schemes. If a scammer collects your personal data and payment information, that could trigger other problems: identity theft ...

The selling of fake postal stamps has been an issue for quite some time now, and the U.S. Postal Service has warned against this. Now, it looks like those items are being advertised on Facebook as ...

New stamps use ink that glows under UV light. Fake ones don't. The counterfeit stamps often are sold in bulk, with discounts from 20% to 50% off their face value, and a popular postage to imitate ...

The operation resulted in 200,000 counterfeit U.S. Forever Stamps from Hong Kong being seized. The fake stamps were valued at $146,000.

Now, click here to see what appears to be fake 2017 Forever Stamps a viewer brought to me Tuesday. They look very similar to the real ones. You can see all or part of five red and five white stripes.

More than 161,000 counterfeit U.S. Forever stamps from China were recently seized in Chicago, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said Thursday.

If you use fake stamps, there’s a good chance your mail will come back to you. So we all lose money when fake stamps flood the market, the consumer and the U.S. Postal Service.

"You could get in trouble," Robinson confirmed. Since stamps are considered currency, using counterfeit ones could result in stiff penalties, much like attempting to pass off fake bills.

If it seems too good to be true, it probably is. A significant discount on stamps this holiday season is a “tell-tale sign” that they’re fake.