The thrill of risk. You might love it when water skiing, playing competitive sports, or skydiving. But you probably don’t want it in your day-to-day financial transactions.
Patrick Combs has a weird relationship with money. He likes to do crazy things with it. Like walk around in public with $10 and $20 bills attached to his shirt to publicize his one-man shows.
Checks are commonly used in personal finance and throughout corporate America to transact business, but fraud is an ever-present risk in the financial system.
You don’t have the technical skills to hack into electronic payment systems. You don’t have contacts at a big company who can deliver you a database of credit card numbers.
Leonardo DiCaprio played infamous fraudster Frank Abagnale in the Steven Spielberg movie, Catch Me If You Can. Abagnale was notorious for check forgery. But he also loved to impersonate other people.…
Not worried about check fraud? Positive that your checks are secure and that you would never have an issue? If you think check fraud is not important, you’re likely a target.