Can someone steal money with just a bank routing and account number? If so, how do they do it? What are the security measures in place to prevent it? PMIf someone has just your bank routing and account number, can they steal money from you? If so, how do they do it? What are the security measures in place to prevent it? I would hope not since most (if not all) personal checks contain both pieces of information on them. Smitty. 07- 0. 5- 2. PMThat's all you need to order checks from certain third party vendors. I don't know if any security procedures have been added since then, but there sure didn't seem to be any at the time. What seems to have happened is that someone stole outgoing mail from our mailbox, and got checking account and credit card numbers that way. Then they used that information to set up electronic payments for stuff they wanted, leaving us with the charges. We had to change all our account numbers and transfer the balance over, but we did in the end get refunded for the fradulent charges. We also started sending mail only through actual Post Office drop points to prevent theft that way, but now we've moved to a different apartment that has its own drop point. Wee Bairn. 07- 0. PMThat's all you need to order checks from certain third party vendors. If not, why do banks accept them? You wouldn't even need to get the fake ID if you are paying by check through the mail. Cooking. With. Gas. PMI pay my state taxes online and all they require is a routing/transit number and the account number. I think they may require a voided check for your first order. Versacheck Payroll 2007 Serials
I don't know if any security procedures have been added since then, but there sure didn't seem to be any at the time. What seems to have happened is that someone stole outgoing mail from our mailbox, and got checking account and credit card numbers that way. Then they used that information to set up electronic payments for stuff they wanted, leaving us with the charges. We had to change all our account numbers and transfer the balance over, but we did in the end get refunded for the fradulent charges. We also started sending mail only through actual Post Office drop points to prevent theft that way, but now we've moved to a different apartment that has its own drop point. It seems like the perpetrator here had access to a lot more than your check routing and account numbers . PMRight, another reason to do away with checks altogether. Oh, bull! I won't elaborate on how to do so, but at my work I have seen it happen many times. Professional health care for the entire family. 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That seems to have been what happened to me. The bank pretty much said that it was the most likely explanation. Geek Mecha. 07- 0. PMI assume this is what happened with my checking account last year. Someone started passing checks with my account and routing numbers, but entirely different names, addresses, phone numbers, signatures, and check designs. They passed about a dozen checks worth several hundred dollars. Since I rarely pay anything but rent and utilities with checks and I've never been told my payment wasn't received, I suspect a bank statement (containing cancelled checks) was stolen out of my mailbox. Thieves suck and should burn in hell, etc., but I am most upset with my bank for not having sirens going off and red flags waving when those obviously different checks appeared. Apparently, the discrepancies raised no alarms, and if they did, no one checked into it or deeply enough. It's the primary reason I'm leaving that bank. Gfactor, General Questions Moderator. Common Tater. 07- 0. PM.. but I am most upset with my bank for not having sirens going off and red flags waving when those obviously different checks appeared. Apparently, the discrepancies raised no alarms, and if they did, no one checked into it or deeply enough. It's the primary reason I'm leaving that bank. It passes through too many hands. Part of the contract agreement for what he was selling was an authorazation for automatic withdrawl of the monthly bill. Apparently this gave him the routing and account numbers for hundreds of accounts. Someone stole this information from one of the business computers without being noticed and they literally printed their own checks for about a year and a half before being caught. PMI'm not denying that it's possible, but I can testify that it's so unlikely as not to deter companies in continental Europe from printing this information on their letterhead. It's how I paid my rental deposit for a job a few years ago; it's how I paid the fishing charter; and it's how a lot of companies prefer big payments. Geek Mecha. 07- 0. PMI don't believe this is a good reason to leave a bank, not at all. Companies that operate Direct Debit require your signed authority and (as a company) must be vetted by the banks before they can operate in that manner. Otherwise, banks cannot move money out of your account without additional identification. These days, this info will be much more than public information (like date of birth/mothers maiden name etc). I'm hopeful that banks will start using security tokens to validate access (private code plus personal time varying code) to really make things secure. Si. Mangetout. 07- 0. AMRight, another reason to do away with checks altogether. Speaking of which, I was mildly surprised the other day to see a sign in Sainsburys (one of the big supermarket chains in the UK) stating that they will no longer be accepting cheques as payment from 1st August. If so, how do they do it? What are the security measures in place to prevent it? Short answer, yes technically they can, and short of never using bank accounts there isn't much you can do to prevent it. The good news is that you are pretty well protected in most cases. Is it possible to steal your money and get away with it? But, you'll be no more secure with a different bank. At my workplace (a small school district) that's hundreds of computers, tablets, and smartphones. A handful of devices on our network always have the same private IP, but most will have different IPs from one day to the next, or even multiple IPs in the same day if they aren't left on all the time. And private IPs are only unique within a subnet. You could have a block of houses with internet access and every house could have a device with the IP 1. Chances are what you think of as your . But it doesn't matter because check fraud is even easier to catch than to commit. At the end you're on video if you were cashing a phony. As a criminal, wouldn't you rather buy some compromised card numbers? Get yourself a crate of Android phones you can resell, something like that. Very little exposure, not much to worry about, no paper trail that'll be held onto nigh to perpetuity. The security simply isn't there yet for cards and that's one reason I write checks and use cash when I can. PMAs several people have mentioned, the numbers on the bottom of the check could be more than enough to steal money from your account. The trick is getting away with it. How do you translate data into money? For the routing information and account, as mentioned, you can make phony cheques - these then have to be passed. Like fraudulent credit cards, one option is to buy easily fenced goods - but then there are witnesses, and trails with serial numbered goods, etc. From my experience, I suspect most banks barely do a cursory inspection of cheques for name, signature match, etc. However, merchants that sell valuable and easily fenced goods probably have their own anti- fraud measures. The trusting days of . I don't know what criteria banks use to allow account transfers, but I suspect if we can dream this up in a few minutes, banks have thought of this and have procedures to vet accounts that want to do a lot of paperless transactions against random accounts. I doubt you can go to the bank, set up your Acme Inc. I don't even know if merchants in Canada typically still take cheques - everything is debit card or credit card nowadays. The cost for a bounced cheque is so high, that even 2. I went to would have a display behind the cash register . There was no real upside in taking cheques when everyone had a debit card for the ATM. At a kids event there was some some educational company selling a . No way was I doing that, but I bought one book that my daughter liked and paid with a check. They took my email address and I later got an email. When I clicked a link in it that was supposed to go to a special offer, a page briefly said . Six months later, I noticed that I was being charged $1. I googled them and found it was the book people charging for membership to their site. A lot of people were complaining about them online. If you click the link in the email, apparently the site briefly flashes info saying you've signed up for monthly membership, but it's so fast you can't read it. I never signed up or gave them a credit card or anything, they had taken the numbers from my check then planted the email link which went to a special page for my address. The email wasn't necessary to get my money, it was just to keep it legal. I talked to my bank who suggested I call the company and see if they'd give the money back, otherwise they'd refund it, close my account and open another, and let their fraud team go after the company. The company said they'd refund half, so I took that and let the bank handle the rest. Hey Hey Paula. 09- 0. AMThat seems to have been what happened to me. The bank pretty much said that it was the most likely explanation. It happened to us too. Thief stole outgoing mail I had left on our mailbox at home (I now mail everything at work or an official post office drop box) and made checks with my husband's account information and routing number, with her (fake) name and address. She then went on a spending spree.
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