Comments on: Cheque Fraud – Cheque Scams

By: Re

Re — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 04:02:00 +0000

I received a envelope with my full name,address,city and state on it. It was a check for 4,300 euros,and it was Dublin Italy…AIB was the name on it. The check had a piece of paper folded around it,UPS delivered it. My bank is confused,and so am I? Not sure if I should just open a account at walmart,and put it in there,leave it for a couple of months,see if there is any withdrawl,if so I know it’s a scam. I mean they can’t get nothing out except the check I put in there.Plus no checks,and no credit card,so they can’t get that info. Oh and not checkings but savings.If it’s a scam shame on them.

By: fredrick

fredrick — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:50:41 +0000

hello, i receive a travelers cheque of 1500 dollars from a lady i met on craiglist and she ask me to follow d instruction on d check which i did write my name and sign on it as instructed and deposited it into my bank account and suppose money is for me to use and travel and meet her in carlifornia, she told me to call her when i cash d money which i did and she ask me to send her 1000 dollars via western union before i come to see her, pls i suspected fraud or stolen cheques, i fear i might go to jail for this. Pls i need help can anyone tell me what to do pls

By: Yavor

Yavor — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 18:21:23 +0000

Hello i have a problem with cheque too.
I received cheque for 1.500 pounds from Unknown sender on the check is my name and my addres and that is all nothing more ?
And i try to clearence the cheque but after 20 days bank told me must to find the sender but i dont know who is so its very stupid joke for me!!
And now i will report the cheque to police beacouse really i dont expect money from no body.

By: CECE

CECE — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 21:26:47 +0000

I cashed my benifits cheque and put my boyfriends number which isn’t in the same city & the teller asked if I lived in the city of the number, I told her “no, it’s my cell”. Can I get into serious trouble for this (if she called the number she would certainly reach me!)? I hope not! I don’t have my own phone number

By: arriele26

arriele26 — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:12:59 +0000

I was a victim of check fraud, I met a man thought he was the one he talked good, said all the right things, was nice to my kids, took us places. He asked could he deposit some checks into my account because he left his bank card at his home in Reno, NV, I did not think anything of it, I let him put the checks in there, four checks later and $3000 he is gone, and all the checks came back acc. does not exist. now I’m on checks systems and can not get a back acc.What do I do in this situation? this happen in August of last year and I live in California did I wait to long to do some thing? Do I have rights in this situation? Can he be prosecuted, or is this a lost cause

By: Renee

Renee — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:36:41 +0000

The same thing just happened to me! I just got a check from UPS, with no instruction, letter, or anything. Just a check.
The sender information gave ma an address in Ottawa, but when I tried to call the phone number, it was disconnected, and it was a New York number.
They had my name, and my address, and the thing that ets to me- my CELL number, not my home, my cell (which I don’t give out to ANYONE)
I want to know where these people got my information, and where it came from!

By: mary

mary — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:31:06 +0000

I had a same problem as the people above. Could you please tell me what to do in this situation, i already reported to the police, now I found myself with no money…

By: Shelly

Shelly — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:37:26 +0000

Oh my god, just seen the comment above. My partner is currently being questioned by police after he put a cheque in the bank for £2000 from an unknown sender. it came in the post with his name and address on the envolope. Turned out its fraudulent but we had no idea, guess we shouldn’t have cashed it but didn’t think there was anything illegal about cashing a cheque. silly i know but we thought it was worth a try even though we didn’t know who it was from. let me know when you see this post mark, would be interested to know what happened with your wife.

By: mark

mark — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:10:12 +0000

my wife received a cheque in the post for £2.500 from a unknown person to us, they knew her full name and full address. why would this be sent?

By: Armand Pedroza

Armand Pedroza — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:49:09 +0000

I am a production manager of Philippines’ leading security printer. We print 80% of the country’s bank checks and i have been directly involved in the banks’ investigations on fraudulent checks. Because of this rampant check scams, i was able to developed some security features that will deter check tampering. One of these is the reverse printing of the account number, meaning the the numbers are inside the black box and the color of the number is the color of the paper, that’s why it is reversed in color. Second I was able to developed a variable digital watermark. This is printed on any part of the check but the print is big and very very light in color and bearing the same account number. So if forgers were successful in replacing the reversed printing of account number, they will have a second headache in replacing the digital watermark of the account number. We have been quite successful in combating check frauds due to this inventions.

By: MardiGrasMadness

MardiGrasMadness — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:03:55 +0000

We fell victim to check fraud this past week. Apparently, the woman took our account number and had checks printed with her info at the top and our account numbers at the bottom and then went on a spending spree. Some 1700.00 later we find out when we tried to use our debit card and got a strange message card not authorized. The bank never even called us to tell us what was going on, they just froze us out of our accounts over a holiday weekend. What a nightmare!

By: JohnS0N

JohnS0N — Wed, 14 May 2008 04:33:00 +0000

Unfortunately your friend can’t do anything about it now. Maybe a call to the police or a private investigator would help if you have any information that could lead to the scammer. The check was mostly likely signed with a fake ID and therefor no traces are leading to the con artist. Best way to stop cheque fraud is by prevention. Your friend needs to assure those steps mentioned above, before accepting a cheque!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 14 May 2008 02:24:00 +0000

My friend Rajesh was received a cheque for supplying of stones.The cheque was deposited in bank and fortunately it was cleared and then after along time ,one day the banker told him it was a counterfeit instrument.Now he is in a big problem.Is there any solutions for this?Is there any best way to identify the counterfeit instruments?