Comments on: Fraud via disappearing ink

By: BlackHat

BlackHat — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:12:47 +0000

Using a fountain pen would help ensure you didn’t leave grooves on the check, by which the original written words could be discerned.

By: Meghan

Meghan — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 21:18:21 +0000

I think the serious legal consequences of the first suggestion (ie: being charged with 1st degree murder) are not at all unintended. However, the consequences are unlikely, unless there is some ability to trace people through the remnents of the words “I am not a crook” that I don’t know about.

PS - I’d love to see a cheque sing. I wonder what the tune would be like?

By: Milan

Milan — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 00:26:32 +0000

Good suggestions, both. Though the first may have unintended and serious legal consequences.

By: Meghan

Meghan — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:07:57 +0000

Or how about using your own pen, which you can be sure does not have disappearing ink?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 03:40:23 +0000

Solution:

Next time such a person provides their pen, for check singing, have them also write “I am not a crook” on a piece of paper. If those words vanish, hunt them down and exterminate them.