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Scammed by Daughter-in-Law: What to do?
I wrote a check for my soon to be ex daughter-in-law for payment of a cord of wood. The name she told me to write was Bob Glea. When I got a copy of the check, she had changed the last name to Gleason, who is a well-known druggie in our town. I specifically asked her twice the spelling of the last name. Is this legal?
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 If the person with whom your daughter-in-law was arranging the purchase of firewood was actually named Gleason, her change of the payee name is of no consequence and entirely legal. However, if, as you suspect, your daughter-in-law made up the story and the payee name to dupe you into issuing the check so that she could later alter it to give it to the purported drug dealer, that's fraudulent alteration.
Inform your bank quickly that the payee name was altered, and that you wish to have the funds returned to your account. Assuming that you haven't gone past any contractual time constraint on such notifications, the bank will ask for an affidavit that the check was altered, and can then start a series of actions related to refunding your account and obtaining the funds back from whatever bank first accepted the check.
Published on BankingQuestions.com 1/21/10
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