'A nightmare': $10K cheque sent to CRA stolen in mail, Ontario small business owner says

 An Ontario man said a cheque he sent the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) worth more than $10,000 for his maple syrup company was stolen in the mail. “Since this has happened it's been a bit of a nightmare for us,” said Jordan Ender of Innisfil, Ont. Ender runs a small family business making organic maple syrup and earlier this year he had to settle his tax bill with the CRA and sent the agency a cheque for $10,800. "I realized that the cheque was intercepted in the mail at some point and altered and deposited into another account," said Ender, adding, “the cheque was deposited, withdrawn and the account closed at the same time, under what appears to be a fake name.” This new scam is called "cheque washing" where criminals steal cheques from the mail and alter names and amounts. Ender thought his bank would reimburse the funds, but when he contacted Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) he was told he had missed an important deadline on reporting the fraud. "The answer the bank came back with is thi