On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 17:40:52 -0600, "WW"
wrote:


"Metspitzer" wrote in message
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If someone used your card without your permission, would that not
already be fraud? Just wonder how often a signature dispute comes up.

I assume it is easy for someone to do. Years ago Wal Mart had to see the
credit card when purchase was made. Now they don't look at it. So one day
when they were still looking at them I handed the card to cashier then
asked for it back so I could see how to sign because I had found the card
in the parking lot ( a joke of course) She just handed the card back to me
and made the purchase.

LOL.

I also write above my signature on card to ask for
identification, many look at that and just return the card. Also the
grocery chain I trade at I mentioned one day "I hope my poor writing of my
name passes. Clerk replied it's OK some people just draw a smiley face, no
signature and that works. WW

In the USA, a signature does not have to be legible or in English or
the Latin alphabet. It can be in a foreign alphabet like Greek,
Hebrew, Chinese, that no one at the store can read.

This includes your checking account and I'm sure contracts and
everything else.

I'll bet the laws that say this encompass using no alphabet, like a
smiley face, and that that is legal too. As in the cowboy movies,
"Make your mark."

"X" is legal for illiterates and others.

Personally I think it should be remembered and farily reproducible by
the signer or he's going to have troubles.