Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!umich!telecom-request From: henry@garp.mit.edu (Henry Mensch) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Did MCI Give me $20? Message-ID: Date: 15 Mar 91 11:30:34 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Reply-To: henry@mit.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 28 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 206, Message 5 of 10 Barton F. Bruce writes: > I have been told that if someone puts on the back of a check something > like "in full payment for denting your fender" that that is NOT part > of the check and can be legally CROSSED OUT before signing. If you find a bank that will accept a check modified like this then you are in good shape. These banks just don't exist (you see, they're not in a position to verify that the modification is approved by the drawer of the check ... moreover, they're not interested, since there's more money to be made by accepting check deposits which do not carry qualified or conditional endorsements). > [Moderator's Note: ... I think your suggestion is sort > of a chintzy way to try and get something for nothing. PAT] Basically, this is true, IMHO. Fighting sleaze with slime is a tactic of dubious utility. If you really *must* have the twenty dollars, you could deposit the check and then close down the phone service they would switch to MCI. of course, not everyone is in a position to do this. # Henry Mensch / / E40-379 MIT, Cambridge, MA # / / # via X.400: S=mensch; OU=informatik; P=tu-muenchen; A=dbp; C=de