7 Jun
2013
7 Jun
'13
7:29 p.m.
On 06/07/2013 10:19 PM, Joe Barrera wrote:
On 6/7/2013 7:05 PM, David Riley wrote:
I've not used paper checks in years. I'm not going back. This is one
reason why.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
Indeed! But as he says in the page I linked, the
problem is not so
much the signature as the routing and account numbers, which is all
that modern banks care about (until you call them up and complain, at
which point the money is already gone from your account until you
convince them that no, you did not write that check).
Somewhere, somewhen, someone did an experiment to see how bad their signature
would have to be before the banks would not honor the check. I think they
ended up PRINTING a totally different name and still the checks were honored.
This was several years ago.
I might be mistaken -- maybe this was credit card receipts. But the same
principle applies.