JoePhoto
Veteran Member
You would have to wait about 2 MONTHS. A bank will "clear" a check in a few days, yet it can STILL COME BACK up to 6-8 weeks later.
A friend of mine deposited a "Dow Chemical Co." check, it cleared, he spent the money.
The FBI showed up 2 months later and arrested him. They gave him 3 days to "replace" every penny or he was going away for a couple of years.
Not if they so-far only have your e-mail addy. Some pro's only maintain a PO Box on their public available web-site.
In my case, and x-employee (that wanted to be a "partner" and I refused) simply went downtown and got a duplicate Business License and DBA in the SAME NAME as my company. (yes, anyone CAN do that, you have to get a Court Order to get it reversed).
He then contacted my BANK, and diverted my MAIL with a Change-of-Address card, (which ANYONE can also very EASILY do). He told both of them that he was the new "owner" of the business.
I notified the POLICE of what he was doing; and they "warned" him that he was going to JAIL if he "took" anything.
That did NOT stop him.
He then conned a LOCKSMITH to allow him into my photo-lab and studio. (he told the locksmith he simply lost his "key")
When he immediately started loading EVERYTHING from my lab-studio into trailers, the LOCKSMITH CALLED POLICE.
The Police came, but even thought they had told him "you are going to jail" .... they suddenly C-H-A-N-G-E-D T-H-E-I-R M-I-N-D, and decided it was a "civil" matter because he convinced them we were "partners", (we were not).
So the police simply WATCHED him load EVERYTHING ... (business records and file-cabinets, computers, a 15 phone-bank system, cameras, lighting, backgrounds, sample photo displays and albums, even desks and chairs). He even got a box that contained 10 years of my "customers" CREDIT CARD RECEIPTS (with ALL their CC numbers on the receipts).
Believe it or not, the police even found out that he had NO DRIVERS LICENSE, and NONE of the trailers were licensed, so they again WARNED him that he "could not drive the vehicles". But the police eventually got "tired" of simply "watching" him ... and left. He immediately "left" also, with ALL my equipment and business records in his trailers.
The police refused to even take a "Theft" Police Report because they claimed it was a "civil" matter and to "handle it myself" ...
Believe me ... IF they had told me earlier to "handle it myself" ... I WOULD HAVE ... with the help of a couple of close friends ... Mr. Smith and Mr. Wesson.
I even have another close friend ... called Mr. LEAD PIPE. (Did you know lead-pipes "bend" when wrapped over the top of someones head ???)
I sued the police the police, they admitted "watching" everything, BUT ... I found out they have "immunity" and could not sue them.
I won a $2 Million judgement from the guy who did it ... but he was/is long gone and I have not seen or heard from him since. (and he does not have $2 million anyway ... he works completely underground)
I got the Bank corrected pretty quickly, but the USPS was a nightmare since I had to deal with Washington DC fraud division and all my "business records" I needed to prove my point, had been stolen by the other guy.
Oh BTW, after he stole all my business records, he also turned me into IRS and State SALES TAX .... I had NO RECORDS to fight with.
I never recovered, I had a heart attack from all the stress, and never fully recovered the business. When "digital" came, I could not afford the new investments required.
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Thanks for reading .... JoePhoto
( Do You Ever STOP to THINK --- and FORGET to START Again ??? )
Send the image after the check clears and the FBI gives her their thumbs up. It's not like the OP needs the money to live on.
