cheque forgery

См. также в других словарях:

• Cheque fraud — Cheque fraud/check fraud refers to a category of criminal acts that involve making the unlawful use of cheques in order to illegally acquire or borrow funds that do not exist within the account balance or account holder s legal ownership. Most… …   Wikipedia

• Cheque — A Canadian cheque …   Wikipedia

• forgery — The legal offence of making a false instrument in order that it may be accepted as genuine, thereby causing harm to others. Under the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act (1981), an instrument may be a document or any device (e. g. magnetic tape) on… …   Big dictionary of business and management

• Identity theft — is a form of stealing another person s identity in which someone pretends to be someone else by assuming that person s identity, typically in order to access resources or obtain credit and other benefits in that person s name. The victim of… …   Wikipedia

• Advance-fee fraud — African sting An advance fee fraud is a confidence trick in which the target is persuaded to advance sums of money in the hope of realizing a significantly larger gain.[1] Among the variations on this type of scam are the Nigerian Letter (also… …   Wikipedia

• Shaun Greenhalgh — (born 1961) is a British art forger. Over a seventeen year period, between 1989 and 2006, he produced a phenomenal range of forgeries. Teaming up with his brother and elderly parents, who fronted the sales side of the operation, he successfully… …   Wikipedia

• Bank fraud — is the use of fraudulent means to obtain money, assets, or other property owned or held by a financial institution. In many instances, bank fraud is a criminal offense. While the specific elements of a particular banking fraud law vary between… …   Wikipedia

• Deception (criminal law) — Deception was a legal term of art used in the definition of statutory offences in England and Wales and Northern Ireland. It is a legal term of art in the Republic of Ireland. Until 2007, in England and Wales, the main deception offences were… …   Wikipedia

• Banker's draft — A banker s draft (also called a bank cheque ) is a cheque (or check) where the funds are taken directly from the financial institution rather than the individual drawer s account.A normal cheque represents an instruction to transfer a sum of… …   Wikipedia

• Authentication — (from Greek αυθεντικός; real or genuine, from authentes; author) is the act of establishing or confirming something (or someone) as authentic , that is, that claims made by or about the thing are true. This might involve confirming the identity… …   Wikipedia

• Negotiable instrument — A negotiable instrument is a document guaranteeing the payment of a specific amount of money, either on demand, or at a set time. According to the Section 13 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 in India, a negotiable instrument means a… …   Wikipedia