Jerome Baum wrote: > On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 15:54, MFPA <expires2...@ymail.com > <mailto:expires2...@ymail.com>> wrote: > > (snip huge email) > > > Next time can you read the whole email and reply to it as a whole? > > As for signature checking, I stand by my point: Over here, signing a > document today and claiming on the signature that it was signed tomorrow > is going to be an offense (if there is a loss to a third party, of > course -- a lie isn't fraud until there is damage). > > The post-dated cheque doesn't say "I signed this in the future", but > "only accept this from that point in the future". That's a big > difference. As for the clerk, he's an idiot and probably liable for > accepting it. It's not my problem if people don't check the signature > timestamp, I can only do my part on making the date accurate -- plus > maybe educating my recipient on checking the timestamp. > When I was on a grand jury, the prosecutor said that while the words of the law made it illegal to write a post dated check (in this state), that they did not prosecute for this unless there was intent to commit a fraud, and that is difficult to prove.
A friend who worked at a bank said they never looked at the dates, but cashed them when presented unless there were insufficient funds to honor them. So there is no use in writing a post dated check unless the person to whom it is presented holds on to it until the date. As treasurer of a tax deductible organization, I use the date on the check as the date of the donation except sometimes I do not. I do not when it is dated something late in December, but postmarked mid January or later. In that case, I use the postmark date. So people writing pre-dated or post-date checks are wasting their time. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 13:10:01 up 21 days, 16:28, 3 users, load average: 4.57, 4.78, 5.01 _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users