Comments on: Cheque Fraud – Cheque Scams

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?