Stealing checks
 

How hard is it for someone to take checks out of someone elses mailbox and cash them? Anybody ever had their checks stolen?

ya i know a few people that has happened 2 just have them sent 2 a po box or fedex so u get a signature

mailman, neighbors it happens a lot

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I had a friend who's brother did that once or twice. He spent two years in prison. It's a federal offense.

Anyone who does that will be caught pretty easily since it's pretty hard to cash a check anywhere without ID, a thumb print, etc. They might be able to cash it but it will be traceable to them somehow.

Yep somebody took a check from my mailbox and cashed it,no identification was asked for...I've also had somebody take my personal checks and make it out to themselves lol..that really sucked :(

How was that matter resolved? If they cash a stolen check without being asked for ID, how can they get caught?

once again my title says it all

:1orglaugh

I bet it is alot more simple to track a stolen wad of cash

it was cashed at a liquor store,so I had to get the check info from the sponsor,find out who the liquor store was after they recashed the check at their bank,go to he liquor store and asked about it..described the guy and it was my neighbor who lived 2 houses away...I didnt pursure it,got my money back and now hes the neighborhood bum

I have never been asked for ID when cashing checks my whole life,even when the check had a female name lol

Time to invest in a set of weights and some testosterone shots!

a couple years ago I deposited some checks that were mine into my personal account at BofA, but they were made payable to a business name.
I made deposited 5 to 10 checks a month for about 6 months, only 1 time did they even notice, the guy was a manager and he told me I could not deposit the checks since they were not in my name and it was a personal account. I told him it was my company name as a sole proprietor but I had not set up an LLC for it yet. He still would not let me deposit them. So I came back the next day and used another teller and had no problem. Most of the tellers did not even notice the checks were not made out to me.

Another time at my local mail boxes etc, I had 2 ARS checks in my mailbox, 1 was mine, the other was for another mailbox. (I think there are 3 or 4 people at my MBE who do adult web sites based on internext ads and other stuff in the trash). Of course I told the MBE people they put the wrong letter in my mailbox. :angel

ziiiing...sounds like I'll have to beat your ass to prove my manlyness...is that a word?

My brother had an incident where someone made a duplicate of his company checks, with his sig and all, and successfully cashed it for $5000. Don't know if they ever caught the guy or not.

Honestly I think it depends on where you live and how tight the mail and check cashing systems are. Regardless of how it occurs though, if you have a check stolen and cashed it can be traced although its a big hassle. People who do things like that are lame and ignorant.

When I lived in New Orleans, it was a huge difference being from Los Angeles. The first month living there most of my mail was lost or stolen. All of my new bank account checks, atm cards, nowhere to be found.

Then my upstairs neighbors all of a sudden were jamming the entire Public Enemy cd catalog which Fletch and I had just mail ordered a week or two before, so it was pretty evident what had happened. :1orglaugh We just let it go so as to not start shit and moved soon after.

And once I got a bundle of mail in my box that was post marked like two months previous. I think my mail man was on crack.

Know what you mean.. I also bank at BofA.. The bank can get in trouble for letting you Dep. to your personal account. Once you Dep. it to your business account you can transfer it to your savings or what ever. They should make you Dep. it to business account and then write a check to your personal account. Even with BofA depends on were you live. I have a business account and checks come made out to me were I live now, they let me Less Cash'm..(This is a NO NO) but were I moved from NO WAY had to Dep. them because it was an business account. IRS made'm do this years ago... Mingling Funds is a NO NO..

I'd had problems with stolen mail in my neighborhood for the first few years I was here. Several times, some of it was recovered (often months later). I would have anything like new checks, bank cards, etc sent to the bank and I'd pick them up.

These mail thiefs are bold. Once the mail was taken within 20 minutes of it being delivered.. broad daylight.

Eventually some of the other neighbors got tired of it too and I organized having a locked box put in for most of us. No more stolen mail.

hrmm, I got a check for 3500 USD delieverd to my address but with some weird company name and its from a lawyer somewhere, dont know if I wanna mess with it :)

No, but manliness is, I think.

When I go to cash my own checks at a different branch of my bank they always check if it's stolen. It's not easy, at least not for amounts over $1k:2 cents:

All those problems just because in stonage U.S. you are still using checks ... pretty unusual here in Europe ... have been using wire as default paying option since 30+ years.

Crazy...

I think that majority of European countries ( at least in Finland, Sweden, Estonia and few others... ) you need to have bank account on the same bank you are going to cash your checks. AND you need to be known person by the bank staff or you need to show your ID. Plus checks MUST be written to your name. No way to cash check if it is written to your company and you can't show documents.

Dude. Now I'm paranoid. Where is your MBE?

Dude. Now I'm paranoid. Where is your MBE?

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in las vegas about 2 miles from the ARS offices on town center blvd. I get my ARS checks real fast :glugglug

Whew!

Not even in the same time zone! :winkwink:

Time to invest in a GED.

A few small check cashing stores will cash just about anything no matter who it is made out to if you ever have a problem.

Just means your checks are too small.

If you had bigger checks they would ask for more proof or identification.

:Graucho

whenever i cash a check at a liquor store they always ask for id and write my drivers license # on the check.

Heheheheh, funny Flech. That was a good one.

Just out of curiousity what's been your biggest check in this biz so far?

heres my biggest check

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