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Cicero wrote:
================================== If your cheques are the same as
mine then both now have a cheque bearing your Account number, Sort
code and your signature. That's quite enough to enable identity theft.
Keep an eye on your account.

Cic.

Cheques have always had that info on them .

=================================== I'm well aware of that fact,

Err, you obviously weren't before it was pointed out. I've had a current
account for over 40 years and personalised cheques with those details
printed on them for about 30 of those years.

but identity theft is a recent phenomenon and and the fastest growing
crime in Britain. Sending a cheque bearing those details to a complete
stranger on Ebay isn't the safest way to complete a transaction.

When you send a cheque to near anyone it is handled by a stranger. Unless
you happen to know everyone at the DVLC, say - the last place I used to
use cheques to pay.

Determined criminals can make use of the flimsiest bits of information.

Anyone stupid enough to give them credit etc on the basis of those details
deserves to be shafted.

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