Paying in cheques but no bank account.

jackywacky

My daughter has cognitive behaviour problems and is easily lead by others and she allowed others to fraudulently use her accounts resulting in them being closed and now when she tries to open a new account unsurprisingly she is refused. I suppose that’s being called blacklisted?
She now has three cheques in her name that she needs to pay in somewhere. Is there any other sort of account she can open if she has been blacklisted?
Thanks

elsien

Has she tried to get a basic bank account, although this may still be turned down. She will have a CIFAS marker on the account which isn't quite the same as being blacklisted.
Any one accepting money from her also needs to be careful as if she's trying to pay dodgy money into other people's accounts they may end up in a similar situation.

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/saving/article-6367319/Can-open-new-bank-account-shut-fraud.html

Who has sent the cheques and is it possible to get the money another way? She could also use one of the high street cheque cashing services but they will charge accordingly.

jackywacky

So it's called a CIFAS marker thanks for that:)
Last week she applied online for an ordinary Co-Op current account but today she got a letter saying she had been refused :sad:

That link looks very useful and I'm going to study it in more depth but a quick look does seem to be that she was used as a mule.

If the cheques were from private individuals I'd ask them to rewrite them but one cheque has come from Revolut Bank and two have come from a crime victim support agency, total value approx £100.
I would say to get them altered wouldn't be easy.

Do CIFAS markers apply to savings accounts maybe she could open one of them?

18cc

One of the NS&I accounts allow payment in by cheque I have forgotten which one so you could try opening one of those

the other alternative as you say may well be a building society savings account or even a post office easy access savings account.

jackywacky

Had a webchat with NSandI and unfortunately they no longer have accounts that allow the paying in of cheques.
My daughter tried to open a Post Office savings account and was declined.
Can anyone think of other accounts that might be a worth a go?
Although we know she has done fraudulent things no one has actually said that's why they won't open accounts she just gets a polite no. Is there a way of finding out for certain it is a CIFAS marker, how long it will last or whether it can be appealed?
Thanks

eskbanker

jackywacky said:

Is there a way of finding out for certain it is a CIFAS marker, how long it will last or whether it can be appealed?

You can find out what's held at CIFAS via https://www.cifas.org.uk/contact-us/subject-access-request, which also explains how to dispute anything that's inaccurate....

xylophone

Has she tried a local building society for a savings account?

Old_Lifer

 I agree with xylophone .  I received a cheque a couple of weeks ago and as I was going to the building society anyway,  I paid it into my building society savings account  while there.  As long as the cheque is payable  to the account holder it should not be a problem.

jackywacky

xylophone said:

Has she tried a local building society for a savings account?

First Thank you eskbanker for the link 

xylophone sorry if this sounds a silly question but do you mean local as the nearest building society to where we live which could the big names? because being in London we don't tend to have smaller building societies set up originally to serve local areas as an example Monmouth.

colsten

If you can't find a suitable Building Society, you could try a Credit Union. There are several in different parts of London. Though I don't know whether and how they handle cheques.

Thrugelmir

Nationwide or Leeds might be an option for a BS savings account.