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On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:00:35 -0400, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:38:26 +0100, St. wrote:
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>> "Jim Henderson" <nos### [at] nospam com> wrote in message
>> news:489a02ec$1@news.povray.org...
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>>> The thing that bugs me about those cheques the most, of course, is
>>> they sit in my mailbox. Nothing like having blank cheques sitting
>>> someplace where someone can come by and steal them - great way to
>>> "prevent" fraud, innit?
>>
>> After following this thread Jim, I've had quite a hard time
>> comprehending
>> that they, (the bank(s)), "send you a cheque". I mean, I've always
>> understood that you can even *draw* a cheque on the side of some live
>> beef stock if you want, and as long as it's accepted by the recipient,
>> the bank will accept it as a genuine cheque. But they're sending blank
>> cheques through email??
>
> Not via e-mail.... ;-)
>
> But of course, you're using a different meaning for "cheque" than I am -
...or maybe not, now that I reread it.
But yeah, the credit card companies have started sending this out as a
way to allow you to draw on your credit line; usually they have some sort
of special promotional interest rate associated with them.
The one that *really* bothers me, though, is when they pre-fill the
dollar amounts in.
Jim
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