[loginptsa]

Hm,
in case of the Hendersons it sound like she was careless,
giving the thief opportunity to get access to both,
her debit card and her cheque-book.
So, at least in part, it was her fault.

(Signatures btw. seem to be a very unsafe proof of identity, after all they are easy to forge if you have a sample of a persons writings)

[xquFzpNw]

couldn't a person just sign a check in someone else's name in an attempt to get out of paying for something?

[swwatch]

I agree w/ Flubber that it sounds like fraud. What bothers me about the article is that it appears that the bank kept the account open and kept processing transactions even after being put on notice of the fraudulent activity.

[jenilopaz]

I may be wrong about the sequence of events. I almost added a disclaimer to my last post about my that. Maybe I should have. Frankly, I'd be furious if my checks got stolen and the bank refused to close the acccount and kept collecting NSF charges on fraudulent checks.

[ibiDb4uu]

Either way, that's a bank from hell.

"I haven't seen a whole lot of cases involving checks, but IIRC, the bank is 100% liable for cashing your checks without your signature."

This has always been my perception. In fact I read that some guy wrote a check on the side of a pig and his bank had to cash it because the pig carried his sig.

[r5YOPDyk]

A forged sig is a sig of her?

[Nafheense]

Originally posted by Lancer
I read that some guy wrote a check on the side of a pig and his bank had to cash it because the pig carried his sig. By the time it got run through the check cancelling machine, it was probably bacon.

MMmmMMmMMmmMmmmm bacon.

[WaydayFep]

Pardon my laziness, but I didn't want to start a similar thread on a similar topic

Late last week, my credit card was declined....a muy surpriso to me. But I thought that maybe the vendor has messed up or something. I called the auto-"consumer-service" machine, and it claimed it didn't have my account number.

So Monday I called my credit union -- the one I've been using for the last 40 years. "We changed providers" -- they tell me -- "You should have gotten a new card."

I go home and check. No new card. So I call back and tell them. They give me the number for "lost and stolen," but then the lady says let me check something, give me your SSN. She checks, "Oh, you don't qualify for the new company."

Forty years with the same CU; a zillion-dollar salary; excellent credit -- what do you have to be to get a credit card?!? Gold fish, three year olds, and cigar-store Injuns get them, but not Zkribbler.

So I go to my new credit union -- the I've been using for only 15 years. They're getting me a new one.

But if I disappear for a few days it's not because Ming found out about me and his wife it's because my IPO is paid via by now-defunct credit card.

However, I shall return!

[Tarrccrys]

What's an IPO?

[abouthotels]

I knew that