Funds lodged into my bank account

[Poor Student]

Just back from the bank. They still didn't have a copy of the cheque but they showed me the lodgement slip. The name of the person on the lodgement slip wasn't mine. The account number and sort code was mine. The girl checked the system for the name on the slip and he had a completely different a/c number to me.

It ended up being lodged with the same teller I had withdrawn money with 40 minutes previously. She must have looked at the wrong piece of paper or whatever.

I know mistakes happen but that's pretty sloppy. Fair play to you for going ahead and sorting it out.

SuperDave, I understand that in the likes of Australia banks can pull signatures for verification up on the screen. I've heard rumours that some Irish banks could have this up on their system in the near future and that may firm up proceedures a bit with regards to cheques. All cheques over a certain amount lodged have to be signed off by management anyway.

[SuperDave]

I know mistakes happen but that's pretty sloppy. Fair play to you for going ahead and sorting it out.

SuperDave, I understand that in the likes of Australia banks can pull signatures for verification up on the screen. I've heard rumours that some Irish banks could have this up on their system in the near future and that may firm up proceedures a bit with regards to cheques. All cheques over a certain amount lodged have to be signed off by management anyway.

oh, the bank i worked in was able to pull up signatures on screen on demand... and yes, cash withdrawals over a certain amount also needed to be signed off by management, with management having to put in their password on screen before you could continue...

but not really relevant to the present conversation, cos once something like that gets past the teller, unless its a pretty big one that comes up on fraud prevention reports (generally automatically produced for lodgments over a certain amount), no-one is ever going to double check it. the only way it'll be detected is by the other person noticing and complaining... and if it was a big business that is mega unlikely to happen.