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#SOMEONE STOLE MY CHECKBOOK VERIFICATION#
#SOMEONE STOLE MY CHECKBOOK PASSWORD#

Each day a huge volume of checks are processed through clearinghouses for payment by machines that read the MICR-encoded routing number. And while it's true that banks are responsible for knowing their customer's signature, and flagging an account for fraud if a signature is discovered not to match, banks are prone to error, especially because they do not manually process checks. With those statistics in mind, it goes without saying that consumers writing checks had better be careful out there. Checks, both consumer and business, were the payment instrument with the highest average value of unauthorized transactions in 2012, according to a 2013 Federal Reserve study, with the average unauthorized check transaction valued at $1221. These are three of many different unfortunate banking incidents that can occur when you're a victim of check fraud - when a thief forges your endorsement signature in order to receive a check payment. Someone cashes a check made out to you by forging your signature - relieving you of a substantial payment.

Your checkbook goes missing, and then later your bank statement says you bought a Porsche.

#SOMEONE STOLE MY CHECKBOOK PASSWORD#

You may want to read this paper by Microsoft Research: Is everything we know about password stealing wrong? (PDF) Is addresses the risk to individuals of bank account compromise.Your paycheck is stolen out of your mailbox. Often the bank can reverse fraudulent transaction. Regulation E allows you to make a claim against fraud. Also, in the US, you are protecting against electronic funds transfer fraud through Regulation E. In the US, hopefully they are complying with the federal regulator's recommendations to implement layered controls FIL-50-2011, e.g., there is so security-gate to go through to move money out (e.g., out-of-band one time token, such as SMS one time code). The bank is required to monitor for fraud and if you are making irregular transactions for your account they should detect it. However, for an ACH to go through requires it to pass internal controls and screens. To perform an ACH requires a routing number and an account number. The following is based primarily on US Banking, but most countries have similar risk management practices if they follow Basel Practices.

#SOMEONE STOLE MY CHECKBOOK VERIFICATION#

At least for my own bank, when the bank does this, it disables the merchant check verification service for your bank account.

If this bothers you, you may be able to protect your own account against this by calling up your bank and asking them to put a fraud alert on your account.

This is a confidentiality breach that is not widely known. This allows an attacker who knows your account number to learn your bank account balance, by using binary search. Basically, you just call up, hit a few digits to go through the phone tree to the merchant check verification option, then type in the account number and the amount, and the phone system will respond with whether the account balance is at least as much as the amount you've provided.

Most banks have a phone number that merchants can call and, via an automated voice response system, learn whether a particular account has enough money that a check for a particular amount will clear.

There is an attack that is not widely known: However, learning someone's the bank account number is enough to learn their account balance. This is fortunate, because every time you write a check or make a bank payment to someone, they receive your account number. In the US, an account number is generally not enough to steal money from someone's account. This question is likely to be country-specific.