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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Dave Willis on October 24, 2014, 05:01:03 pm

Title: Cheque with the wrong name.
Post by: Dave Willis on October 24, 2014, 05:01:03 pm
Customer has sent me a £30 cheque and made it out to David Williams - I'm tempted to alter it what do you think?
Title: Re: Cheque with the wrong name.
Post by: Lee GLS on October 24, 2014, 05:15:10 pm
Stick  it through as it is, if it's only one in a bundle it will probably get missed, i get my surname spelt wrong all the time and the get paid in no problem.
Title: Re: Cheque with the wrong name.
Post by: dave0123 on October 24, 2014, 06:40:36 pm
Same here just put it in i have put cheques in spelt wrongly nothing has ever come of it. I put a cheque through once written to nobody by mistake and it still went through lol
Title: Re: Cheque with the wrong name.
Post by: LWC on October 24, 2014, 06:48:19 pm
Yeh id just stick it thru
Title: Re: Cheque with the wrong name.
Post by: Jonny 87 on October 24, 2014, 07:40:39 pm
Someone I know used to get cheques in his business name, and he would just cross it out and put his name.

Never once had one rejected. Haha.
Title: Re: Cheque with the wrong name.
Post by: ChumBucket on October 24, 2014, 07:49:37 pm
I've altered one before, just initial the correction as if the customer has done it. I often have to sign cheques too- when the customer has forgotten to!! ;D 
Title: Re: Cheque with the wrong name.
Post by: KS Cleaning on October 24, 2014, 08:34:08 pm
Customer has sent me a £30 cheque and made it out to David Williams - I'm tempted to alter it what do you think?
Aye just alter it to £300 and whilst you're at it correct the name :P
Title: Re: Cheque with the wrong name.
Post by: Bay View WCS on October 25, 2014, 09:41:52 am
Someone I know used to get cheques in his business name, and he would just cross it out and put his name.

Never once had one rejected. Haha.

I do this quite often. Never a problem.
Title: Re: Cheque with the wrong name.
Post by: Carl2009 on October 25, 2014, 10:26:10 am
I've had several come back when the business name is wrong. In fact I've just called someone now telling them that their cheque would get rejected cos the name was wrong. Local chippy so I'm collecting cash tonight as I'm going to be passing. For me it's happened so often it's not worth risking it as it just a hassle.
Title: Re: Cheque with the wrong name.
Post by: ChumBucket on October 25, 2014, 02:06:38 pm
Had to sign one again this morning ::)roll
Title: Re: Cheque with the wrong name.
Post by: Matt. on October 25, 2014, 04:17:13 pm
Do what KS says and change it to £300 haha
Title: Re: Cheque with the wrong name.
Post by: koopmaster on October 25, 2014, 06:30:34 pm
Some banks are lazy (mine included)  I just put it in the middle of a few cheques and it goes through....
Title: Re: Cheque with the wrong name.
Post by: Tom White on October 26, 2014, 09:04:21 am
In a previous job, providing banking services to soldiers in places where there's no banks, I always ended up with a bunch of badly written cheques from semi-illiterate squaddies.

So, being lazy, instead of chasing each soldier up and trying to find where he was, I'd just make the changes myself - using a similar pen to the one that the soldier used - and scribble what I thought looked like the initials of the soldier by the amendment.

Never had a problem and I must've done this with hundreds of cheques.Obviously adding zeros and increasing the amount wouldn't be very clever.
Title: Re: Cheque with the wrong name.
Post by: G Griffin on October 26, 2014, 09:42:38 pm
Customer has sent me a £30 cheque and made it out to David Williams - I'm tempted to alter it what do you think?
To David Walliams?
I wouldn't bother, he's loaded anyway. 
Title: Re: Cheque with the wrong name.
Post by: Danny F on October 27, 2014, 12:32:56 am
In a previous job, providing banking services to soldiers in places where there's no banks, I always ended up with a bunch of badly written cheques from semi-illiterate squaddies.

So, being lazy, instead of chasing each soldier up and trying to find where he was, I'd just make the changes myself - using a similar pen to the one that the soldier used - and scribble what I thought looked like the initials of the soldier by the amendment.

Never had a problem and I must've done this with hundreds of cheques.Obviously adding zeros and increasing the amount wouldn't be very clever.

Wonder how many do change the amount and get away with it.
Title: Re: Cheque with the wrong name.
Post by: steve rix on October 27, 2014, 01:56:05 am
I have 3 old ladies who ALWAYS make the cheque out to "The Window Cleaner". Just stick em in!!
Title: Re: Cheque with the wrong name.
Post by: Tom White on October 27, 2014, 10:42:05 am
Wonder how many do change the amount and get away with it.

Not many.  It'd be a really stupid and idiotic kind of fraud.  Easy to spot, trace, and prove.  And for the small amount anyone thinks they may get away with, would it be worth it?

Only an idiot would do that kind of thing.
Title: Re: Cheque with the wrong name.
Post by: Danny F on October 27, 2014, 05:02:41 pm
Wonder how many do change the amount and get away with it.

Not many.  It'd be a really stupid and idiotic kind of fraud.  Easy to spot, trace, and prove.  And for the small amount anyone thinks they may get away with, would it be worth it?

Only an idiot would do that kind of thing.

Don't worry , I'm not contemplating it lol :)