Your Mother’s Maiden Name Is Not a Secret

Re:Your Mother’s Maiden Name Is Not a Secret by alsetmusic on Friday December 29, 2017 @09:33PM (#16033470)

> None of the banks I have accounts with ever gave me a chequebook.

We have to request them and pay a small fee for them. They aren’t typically issued when you open the account. You just receive a debit card.

Exceptions may exist. This is only my experience.

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Re:Your Mother’s Maiden Name Is Not a Secret by StavrosK on Friday December 29, 2017 @09:39PM (#16033500)

Oh, I'm sure you can get them somehow, I'm just saying that they're so rare that no bank gives them out by default (nor have I ever seen one or know what to do with it).

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Re:Your Mother’s Maiden Name Is Not a Secret by sverhagen on Saturday December 30, 2017 @01:13AM (#16034105)

Is there still a universal system of acceptance of checks, though, like there was Eurocheques before 2001? Any bank can presumably issue checks, but if no car dealerships take them...?

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Re:Your Mother’s Maiden Name Is Not a Secret by lrem on Saturday December 30, 2017 @02:41AM (#16034300)

Banks still take them. I remember shops in my area starting to refuse them about 2000.

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Re:Your Mother’s Maiden Name Is Not a Secret by dreamfactored on Saturday December 30, 2017 @12:28AM (#16033987)

You can write a cheque on anything as it's just a written instruction. Sadly the story of the farmer who wrote one on the side of a cow turns out to be false.

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