What do you do when someone steals a blank check?

Question

with your signature on it

"Why in the world would you have signed a blank check?"-yeah, I didn't, I was just wondering

Answer 1

you steal their eye.........

Answer 2

If your signature is on it, then it is not a blank check.

If only one check got stole, you are darn lucky.

The thing to do is to contact the bank and get a STOP PAYMENT on THAT CHECK # ... you will have to pay the bank something, like $ 25-50 for this, but that is well worth while

the crook could try to cash check for like $ million dollars, then the bank would close your account because think you fraud, and the police would come arrest you

There are companies that write scores or hundreds of checks every day, and they really do not want to be signing all those checks, so there's things they do

(a) the checks are pre-signed BUT locked up some place, and the gal who runs the computer system that prints on the checks, she has responsibility to track

Monday we wrote checks 24765 through 24980 and we had to void 24850 & 24851 because of a jam in the computer pritner.

So next day when she goes to take the checks out of where they are locked up, the next check # there had better be 24981

Also the cartons of checks that got "published" already signed, come from a place that is "bonded" (a type of insurance), and each carton clearly marked with what's 1st last check # in there, and you can be sure this gets checked to make sure it is right, and no # gets used twice.

(b) Something like a rubber stamp is used to put the "signatures" on the checks, and that rubber stamp is locked up some place really safe, and not same place as the blank checks are stored, when not in use.

Answer 3

You call your bank and have them put a stop payment on the check. If they can't do it because it has not been made out to anyone or for an amount, tell them that the check has been stolen (you'll have to give them the check number) and that they cannot honor that check.

The damage will have been done already. It takes a day or two for the check to go through the system; unless the business does it as an electronic check.

If you know who did it, get it back from them. Report them to the police.

And remember, never to have signed, blank checks just sitting around; you are just asking for trouble.

Answer 4

Put a stop payment on it right away. The bank will probably charge a fee but it's better than trying to dispute a check written out for hundreds. If the check has cleared, just tell them it was stolen and you didn't write it. They'll have you sign ad afidavit of forgery and they'll send it back to whoever accepted it. Just watch your bank account closely in the near future and if you think it got in the hands of criminals, request everything be transferred to a new account. One reconnendation is to make sure your dl is removed from checks if it is preprinted on them now.

Answer 5

Why in the world would you have signed a blank check?

Call your bank right away and put a stop payment on it.

Answer 6

Put a stop payment on your check and ask them to issue you a new account!

That check has too much of your personal information on it and you could be a target of ID theft!

Answer 7

~call tha bank asap and cancel tha check\
~the sooner u call tha beta