Monday, June 11, 2007

UPDATE 1-US bank regulators urged to review unsigned checks

(Reuters) - The letter, written by House Financial Services Committee
Chairman Barney Frank and fellow Massachusetts Democrat Edward
Markey, highlights concerns raised in a New York Times story in
May describing the use by fraudsters, posing as telemarketers,
of so-called "remotely created" checks.




The practice involves a call to someone who is told he or
she won a prize, but they must provide bank account information
in order to claim it. Instead of depositing a prize the
criminal drains the account using unsigned checks, also called
"demand drafts."


Read more at Reuters.com Government Filings News

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