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Cheque - Incorrect Payee Name
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FYI - Below a certain amount (can depend per bank) they wont even check the date...Peter
Debt free - finally finished paying off £20k + Interest.0 -
i had something similar, and asked them to reissue it
but,
i had taken a photo that someone wanted to use (rare), and i made an invoice and cited "stock photography" in the "whats this for" area etc, and attached emails of the proposal - so they wrote it to "my name's stock photography" - as if it was a trading name, would this have been ok??
in any event i got them to just use my name and name only.0 -
So if it passes the cashier, it will clear?
Darn should have done that
No, steer clear of the cashier, they'd be more likely to reject than the computer!Make £2025 in 2025
Prolific £841.95, Octopoints £6.64, TCB £456.58, Tesco Clubcard challenges £89.90, Misc Sales £321, Airtime £60, Shopmium £52.74, Everup £95.64 Zopa CB £30
Total (1/11/25) £1954.45/£2025 96%
Make £2024 in 2024
Prolific £907.37, Chase Int £59.97, Chase roundup int £3.55, Chase CB £122.88, Roadkill £1.30, Octopus ref £50, Octopoints £70.46, TCB £112.03, Shopmium £3, Iceland £4, Ipsos £20, Misc Sales £55.44Total £1410/£2024 70%Make £2023 in 2023 Total: £2606.33/£2023 128.8%0 -
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jonesMUFCforever wrote: »Rubbish!
You can explain to a human - a computer will say no.
Are these cheque scanning pay-in machines sophisticated enough to check for details like payee name spelling?
My experience suggests otherwise. I've had cheques rejected at the counter which we subsequently paid in via a machine with no issues!0 -
Its a funny old world.
The banks say that in the near future they will start validating the Payee Name - as a means of reducing fraud.
Yet this morning I had LBG on the 'phone - yet again - saying that, rather than fixing their carp IT system could I invent and use different spellings of my name.
Funny old world.0 -
jonesMUFCforever wrote: »Rubbish!
You can explain to a human - a computer will say no.
Odds of encountering a pedantic jobsworth cashier, versus the cheque imaging machine not picking up a misspelled name...? I know which option I'd use if it was my cheque and I didn't have time to get it reissued.: )0 -
Had a similar problem once, cashier refused to cash it, so I went to the machine and it was processed fine:beer:0
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My wife received a cheque from an elderly relation in her maiden name. Cashier couldn’t care less and cheque cleared no problem.0
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